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Ok, I'll ask: Can ChatGPT possibly kill us?

I'll also answer: No, it cannot.

Now that that's out of the way, we can get to discussing more interesting topics, like why an advanced language model is so bad at basic arithmetic.



I find the mistakes that it makes really interesting. They often feel rather human - e.g. if you were to ask me to multiply two large numbers together under time pressure it's likely I could get the number of digits and first few digits right, but make mistakes in the other digits (or just guess).


Down with AI, up with Anthropomorphized Overconfidence




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