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Deterministic AI

Generative AI has a PR problem. ChatGPT made it easy to demonstrate how dumb it could be.

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Bill french
Oct 02, 2023
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Most ChatGPT users have been misled into thinking AI is often stupid, hallucinates, and is especially challenged concerning numbers. Indeed, generative AI cannot perform math with precision because it is designed to do only one thing -

Predict the next word based on a collection of words, specifically tokens.

When math is involved, it goes off the rails q…

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