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Bard is kind of trash though. GPT-4 tends to so much better in my experience.
they are both shit at adding and subtracting numbers, dates and whatnot... they both cant do basic math unfortunately
It's a language model, I don't know why you would expect math. Tell it to output code to perform the math, that'll work just fine.
I know. It's still baffling how much it messes up when adding two numbers.
It's not baffling at all... It's a language model, not a math robot. It's designed to write English sentences, not to solve math problems.
I just asked GPT-4:
Its reply:
It's pretty hit or miss though... I've had lots of good calculations with the odd wrong one sprinkled in, making it unreliable for doing maths. Mostly because it presents the result with absolute certainty.