Probably should've just asked Wolfram Alpha
It is correct. Half is 3/6 a third is 2/6. So a half is one third larger than 1/3
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LLMs are really fucking bad at math. They're trying to find the statistical close answer, not doing computation. It's rather mind-numbingly dumb.
Unfortunately a shockingly large number of people don’t get this… including my old boss who was running an AI-based startup 💀
one third plus one half of one third is one half.
Sure, but, what does that have to do with the AI answer? Wait.. Are you an AI?
I think thats an issue with AI, it has been so much trained on complex questions that now when you ask a simple one, it mistakes it for a complex one and answers it that way
The issue is it's an LLM. It puts words in an order that's statistically plausible but has no reasoning power.
It's auto-complete. It knows that "4" is the most common substring to follow "2 + 2" in its training. It's not actually doing addition.
Can i out pendant you?
Now ask it if a Third-of-a-Pound burger is bigger than a Quarter Pounder
Did Google train Gemini on American dataset?
LLMs can't math
Ironically the one thing computers are normally good at.
yea
This is very clearly an example of bad AI, but maybe it was trying (and failing) to convey this?
Basically, 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 + 1/81 + ... + 1/3^n = 1/2.
Probably not. But maybe.
I’m thinking it’s trying to say:
(2/6) + (1/6) = (3/6) = (4/6) - (1/6)
But either in “colloquial English for those who want to give other people aneurysms” or “colloquial English for those trying to sound smarter but aren’t”
Basically that the degree of difference between a half and a third is the same degree of difference between a half and two thirds- and that degree of difference is “one part”.
It's not trying to say either of them.
It's just guessing what word to say next, given the previous words in the context.
Definitely true, of course,
Or ⅓ + (⅓*½) = ½
1/3 is 1/2 of 2/3
"42"
"The answer to life the universe and everything is 42!?"
"Yes, I checked it quite thoroughly."
...
"But what was the actual question?"
Alternatively, garbage in, garbage out.
considering where the garbage came from, maybe we should stop shitposting :)
That's like having google make a pizza with everything in my fridge then they complain that I also keep the dog's food in there.
I read it as “A third of a third plus a third is a half.” Which makes sense to me. What an I missing?
It's wrong. 1/3 + (1/3 * 1/3) = 3/9 + 1/9 = 4/9. It's close though.
However, one third plus one half of a third is correct. 1/3 + (1/2 * 1/3) = 1/3 + (1.5/3 * 1/3) = 1/3 + 0.5/3 = 1.5/3 = 1/2
I'm guessing whatever it scraped to generate this was intended for divvying up food rather than doing actual math. 1/3 plus a third of a third is close enough to a half if you're talking about portioning out pizza or leftovers or what have you.
divvying up food rather than doing actual math.
divvying up - dividing food into equal proportions - is math.
Yep, the difference between .444... And .5 is only .0555...
Who notices 5 nintieths of something? That's going to be within the error of sloppy measuring anyways
What an I missing?
basic arithmetic? .33 + .33 doesn't = .5
Guess that makes two of us. More like .11 + .33 doesn’t = .5
I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe the intent is to make people even dumber. It’s just misinformation all the way down.
Wouldn't even be surprised at this point. It seems the system is intentionally designed to discourage critical thinking and apparently knowing how to do math properly is too close for comfort now.
Someone I know had an old friend on their Facebook timeline say that schools should be reformed and don’t need classes like algebra. Then they proceeded to list fields kids could receive training for instead… and all of them required math of some sort.
I don't even look at the AI result. I scroll right past. That's the thing, if it's bullshit 50% of the time, and you can't always tell like you can here, then it's bullshit 100% of the time, and it's useless, just taking up screen real estate.
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