In my previous post I was talking about how I am usually quite skeptical of the claims being made about AI and how it is going to solve the world’s problems. There are some good usecases and there are some advantages to adding Machine Learning to the system. I have written about a few of them here.
But we are nowhere close to the Singularity and most of the folks who are pushing AI right now are the same ones who where pushing NFT’s earlier and Crypto before that… Case in point, according to founder of AI is an existential threat and OpenAI ChatGPT is a showcase of how advanced AI has become. However, this ‘advanced’ AI can’t even multiply two numbers to get the correct answer. I asked ‘What is 7467*5730’ and it gave me ‘42,777,810’. Then I asked my calculator to perform the same multiplication and that gave me: (Drum roll please…) 42,785,910. (See the screenshots below)
ChatGPT can’t perform a simple multiplication
Others have faced the same issue and I rest my case about why we need to be very careful using these AI assistants because they give answers that look legitimate and correct but are completely wrong or have subtle errors that need expertise to identify.
– Suramya