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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Neat! Never seen this one before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Where's my 1 million dollars?

[–] foenkyfjutschah 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

how is it different from a calculator or say a Python REPL? i'm asking b/c i'm too old to try out young folks inefficiently engineered "solutions".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You input some text, chatGPT guesses the answer using the linear algebra that powers LLMs

The project was made as a satire of companies putting AI into everything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

have you ever wanted your calculator to be able to be wrong like a human?
Like, not just calculating the wrong answer or returning an error, i mean outright brainfart and just giving a nonsense answer