I just had a weird experience

[Mick]

I’ve been experimenting with a variety of AI tools. I realize that they can be hallucinatory and invent citations and so forth, and in its current form, I wouldn’t use it for anything other than a draft of certain sections. It’s not trustworthy yet.

And yet…I just asked ChatGPT to add seven one- and two-digit numbers. The total was 85, but the AI engine came up with 87.

A calculator won’t fail, the Excel spreadsheet I’m dropping it into doesn’t fail when adding and even a wrinkly old human like myself can eyeball seven numbers, add them in my head and come up with the correct number. And to be fair, it added thirty similar sequences correctly.

I don’t know when or if AI will take over the world, but…not being able to add seven numbers? What can we infer from that?

[Beeg_Dawg]

Is AI used by the BLS to create the Jobs reports?

 

[Mick]

Is AI used by the BLS to create the Jobs reports?

Not speaking ironically, but…yes, it actually does.

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