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Language models are designed to produce responses which convince the user that they are a coherent response. They don't care about factuality, and in fact have no ability to "know" if they are correct. And they don't "care"
If you want a smart query tool that lets you ask math problems, you should try something like Wolfram Alpha. It's not perfect, but it's at least designed with the intent to produce answers to math problems.
I suspect that most people think (maybe not even consciously) that these models answer questions by retrieving data and then writing a response which incorporates that data, rather than just generating text that may or may not contain actual facts.
It really bears repeating over and over that all these so-called AI systems do is take a prompt and output text in response to it that reads as if a human wrote it.
They definitely retrieve data too, otherwise you wouldn't be able to send ask them about news events that happened yesterday and get a summary on it.
Thing is they can be confidently wrong,.
yeah im not denying that but it's not black and white. people either praise it as this super intelligent AI or act like it's cleverbot 2.0. if you have low expectations and use it for what it's intended and actually take a moment to review the output then it's useful for lots of things