ChatGPT calculated taxing U.S. billionaires at the 22% rate of average Texans would generate $161 billion to $1.37 trillion annually depending on how you tax. Edit: I posted this because I would imagine LLMs to have readily accessible figures that random reporters may not.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Big brain move, asking an LLM to do economics math. They’re large LANGUAGE models, not large MATHEMATICAL models. They forgo rigorous methodologies in favor of stochastically predicting correlations based on intractably large datasets, which can lead to such impressive mathematical feats as failing to count to three. Great job, Yahoo.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Seriously. My sister was the one who believed ChatGPT can think and do calculus or math. I gave a rather simple but definitely unique math task. At first I put it into google search calculator and showed the result, which was correct. Then I gave the same exact thing to ChatGPT and the result was completely different and false.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My favorite example was when they gave all the top LLMs a task to figure out how many circles in an image were touching. Every single one failed miserably at this task that would have been trivial for a 3 year old.

    Unless the answer was five. Because of the Olympics logo.

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