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You can rely on the answer a calculator gives you. There's no danger that it will simply be confidently wrong.

A calculator uses some type of finite precision arithmetic internally. If you run afoul of the limits of this arithmetic system, it may very confidently give you a wrong answer!

Some calculators will confidently state incorrect answers to questions like:

(10^15 + 7.2 − 10^15) * 100

LLMs are notoriously bad at math but they’re not LMMs so that shouldn’t be surprising.

If you want an LLM to do math you just ask it to write a program with tests.

How about Pentium II floating point arithmetic?

1Kg of Beef takes as much Energy as 60.000 ChatGPT prompts, and as much water as 51.383.333 ChatGPT prompts.

Stop eating meat, driving your car, and taking hot showers. Then we can talk about prompt resources.

Why not all of it?

Cost of opportunity and diminishing returns.

It's stupid to optimise a 0.01% case when you can spend that time on a 25% case.

I don't eat meat for the last 10 years, don't own a car, and take cold showers. Can we talk about energy and resource efficiency of chatGPT now or you gonna gatekeep the conversation till I convince all of humanity to be vegan?

I'm gonna (mathematically speaking rightfully) consider the conversation an absolute waste of time and resources, until a significant portion of humanity does that, yes. Because you falling over dead and consuming 0 resources makes only reduce global resource consumption by 0.00000001%.

i'm vegan for a decade if that matters, i also opted for not having a driver license even lured to recieve a car when i turned 18. i'm also straight and i don't want children. the later (not having children) has a bigger impact than the first 2 together... should we be anti-natalists?

anyway your also missing the copyright violation and the whole other plethora of problems coming from generative AI. like bias and misiformation. water and electricity is just a tiny point of this great pile of shit. also this low % still uses USA coal power most of the times and drains water from nearby houses. i'm not a rat to dry-bath on talc powder because some greed entrepreneur wants their 6 figures in-check

Water? I didn’t realize that when you use water it disappears from the universe, or even from earth, or even from the local ecosystem

Energy doesn't disappear, but obviously it moves from useful forms to unuseful forms. Same with water. Your sarcasm just comes off as naive arrogance.

The water is gone? Where did it go?

Converted to steam and carried out of the local ecosystem by wind. From the perspective of anyone downstream the water is gone.

Really? All water that goes into the air is gone forever? And then the wind blows it away? Incredible

Why are you being so antagonistic? Are you ok?

> Water? I didn’t realize that when you use water it disappears from the universe, or even from earth, or even from the local ecosystem

Your own standard includes the local ecosystem.

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