I’m still trying to learn how to use ChatGPT to improve my productivity. One thing I’ve been experimenting with recently is to ask it to check my math. As it turns out, I’m still better at math than the algorithm. Here is a link to a recent discussion I had with ChatGPT. My entries are the short strongly indented statements. In this little conversation, ChatGPT made six separate math errors. Each time it confidently asserted something to be true when in fact it was provably false, and each time it would cheerfully admit its error when I pointed it out.
My recommendation is to keep ChatGPT on a short leash. Don’t ask it anything you can’t directly confirm yourself.
Doesn’t EJ Antoni rely on ChatGPT for his Twitter posts? And he trust it 100% as little EJ has no clue what real economics is.
Here’s what ChatGPT just produced over at EJ’s Twitter:
‘Adjusting average earnings for inflation doesn’t always present an accurate picture of the middle class’s financial health b/c average income can be skewed by outliers; the Household Budget Index just looks at the purchasing power of middle-income families and it shows significant losses over the last several years’
Macroduck the other day noted what this index is different from say CPI and it had nothing to do with “outliers”:
https://www.primerica.com/public/household-budget-index.html
The other thing is that this measure has been rising of late and is about where it was in January 2019. Clearly EJ’s version of ChatGPT is off the mark and of course a fake PhD and general MAGA moron knows even less.
“Each time it confidently asserted something to be true when in fact it was provably false, and each time it would cheerfully admit its error when I pointed it out.”
That was sort of fun to wade through.
Which model was this? 4o, or o1 (mini or preview)? That will potentially make a massive difference in the outcome.
It tells me, “I am ChatGPT, based on the GPT-4 architecture. My current version (v2.0) was released in 2024”