Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok boasted that the billionaire had the "potential to drink piss better than any human in history," among other absurd claims.
But at least the calculator is designed to combine numbers in the right order. LLMs, on the other hand, could come up with a different answer every time and different models would come up with wildly different answers based on their training data.
No current AI understands context, they are just glorified word predictions!
I agree and go further; no AI understands anything. Just like a calculator doesn’t understand “2+2=4”, it’s just pushing numbers around.
But at least the calculator is designed to combine numbers in the right order. LLMs, on the other hand, could come up with a different answer every time and different models would come up with wildly different answers based on their training data.
The calculator comes with guarantees.