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I will ask it a math question I'm thinking about, get a confident answer back, only to realize hours to days later that it was 180 degrees backwards
efavdb on Hacker News
In the thread “The revenge of the data scientist”
Helped: Spitting out boilerplate code faster than manual coding.
Got in the way: Providing confident but completely backwards math research answers.
… But I have to say, I'm constantly surprised by how "dumb" chatgpt is as a math research partner. I will ask it a math question I'm thinking about, get a confident answer back, only to realize hours to days later that it was 180 degrees backwards. I'm so frustrated right now with this that I'm almost ready to stop asking it such questions at all. …