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Re: CalcGPT

#41
post #28

I think there is a bug here... 8888888×965 = 965 according to this site with temperature = 0 or 3.63... with temperature = 1 On the other hand, GPT4 gets it correct: https://chatgpt.com/share/34007f39-cfa8-46c8-bda3-9f641affc1... Even when I instruct it not to think about it: https://chatgpt.com/share/cb22c9dc-1549-4d00-a498-c889f6822b...

It is GPT-3 so very out of date model.

Re: CalcGPT

#42
post #20

This is amazing. An antidote to the mesmerisation.

I'm taking this to work to show an executive who is desperate to integrate AI into the day to day operations of a college.

It is using pre hype old version of GPT. So it is quite dishonest that you would have to use this one to prove a point. It may work as a joke, but the model that the hype is for (GPT4) wouldn't perform that poorly.

So it is actually evidence in favour of how strong the gap is between pre hype and after.

This is not the model that caused the hype.

Re: CalcGPT

#43
post #30

This is neat, but most people are going to miss "GPT-3 (babbage-002)". Using a rudimentary, outdated model seems disingenuous when making any kind of point about AI.

Yeah I would say it actually makes the contrary point. That pre hype version of the GPT is poor and if you have to use this one to prove a point it probably means there is a huge jump between GPT3 and GPT4. So to me it proves the contrary. And anybody going for that or believing it doesn't actually understand the performance of GPT4 or better if they are thinking that this is post hype LLM output.

Re: CalcGPT

#45
post #20

This is amazing. An antidote to the mesmerisation.

I'm taking this to work to show an executive who is desperate to integrate AI into the day to day operations of a college.

That's silly. You may as well bring a telegraph to show how bad the idea is the internet is.

There are better, more reasonable arguments against too much AI hype.

Re: CalcGPT

#46
post #23

I'm sorry but this falls flat for me. GPT4 routinely can answer impressive math questions for me (college-level): - What diameter steel wire would I need to be rated for a weight of 500lbs? - How many digits would a ID need to be (using 36 characters) to have a 1/10^20 chance of collision over 1 billion random IDs? - If I have a list of a million times (say durations of a web request) and they follow a normal distrib…

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Re: CalcGPT

#47
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is for sure just a funny hobby project, but your statement had me intrigued: > Suppose in D&D I am told to roll 20 d6, but instead of rolling that many dice I want to roll just two (larger) dice and add a constant. Which standard D&D dice might give the closest variance and what is the constant? Interestingly, ChatGPT 4o tells me to use 2d19 + 51, even after correcting it and asking for larger dice. Impressive mat…

To be fair, I didn't hand-check the answer it gave (and I didn't retype the whole prompt exactly here) - but here's what it gave me [4o model]: ... (lots of calculations) Final Comparison Variance of 20d6: 58.33458.334 Variance of 1d20+1d12+53: 45.166745.1667 The variance of 1d20+1d12+53 is closer to 58.334 than previous combinations and represents a reasonable approximation for both mean and variance. [Edit: Just ch…

Yes, it's technically correct, but you said a larger dice, which a d12 is not :)

I would be curious to know if the larger dice version is impossible, but then I would also expect it to tell me.

Re: CalcGPT

#48
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, I didn't hand-check the answer it gave (and I didn't retype the whole prompt exactly here) - but here's what it gave me [4o model]: ... (lots of calculations) Final Comparison Variance of 20d6: 58.33458.334 Variance of 1d20+1d12+53: 45.166745.1667 The variance of 1d20+1d12+53 is closer to 58.334 than previous combinations and represents a reasonable approximation for both mean and variance. [Edit: Just ch…

Yes, it's technically correct, but you said a larger dice, which a d12 is not :) I would be curious to know if the larger dice version is impossible, but then I would also expect it to tell me.

I'm confused. I consider a d12 a larger die than a d6. Perhaps you're making a pun about physical size of the dice?

Re: CalcGPT

#49
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's technically correct, but you said a larger dice, which a d12 is not :) I would be curious to know if the larger dice version is impossible, but then I would also expect it to tell me.

I'm confused. I consider a d12 a larger die than a d6. Perhaps you're making a pun about physical size of the dice?

Oh wow I actually misread the comment, thought it was 6d20. Ok scratch everything!
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