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Using a calculator won't make you a mathematician, but a mathematicians with a calculator can show you amazing things.

• leptons 1y ago
  Calculators wont give you completely wrong results, not even once, where "AI" does that way too often. If calculators did too, mathemeticians simply would not use them.
  • b112 1y ago
    Most specifically, random wrong results. Some calculators have issues with rounding, but if you understand those issues, it's consistent. Imagine driving your car, you turn right, but today turning right slams on the brakes, and 10 people rear end you! That's current AI.
    • ForHackernews 1y ago
      This is why using LLMs to generate deterministic code (with human-verified tests) is a much better idea than including LLMs directly in runtime systems.
  • RamtinJ95 1y ago
    Yes in terms of raw LLM, but with some tools or a MCP the “AI” will never be wrong.
    • leptons 1y ago
      That is not true at all.
    • tempodox 1y ago
      Including browsers with built-in “AI” & MCP draining user’s bank accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846