"But don't let her incompetence fool you, because these things are getting better fast."
No, they aren't. And unless what an LLM is changes fundamentally, they can't.
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ROFL I mean, what else was going to happen? This is an LLM, they are artificially incompetent!
Did this Fry at any point utter the words "Shut up and take my money"? This is important.
I know of Hannah Fry from a few YouTube math channels and she is objectively very good at math, which I took to mean very intelligent. I do not know why people continue to try this same exact thing though. There are plenty of already existing articles with the same findings. Maybe if a new model came out that was touted as revolutionary or something, but in the meantime this just strikes me as people who think they're special and know something that the other people who did this kind of experiment didn't. In truth, it's luck of the draw and it's possible it had succeeded instead of failed. In that case would they have triumphantly written the exact opposite article? The whole thing seems dumb and a waste of money and compute, while actually increasing demand. The article ends with them hyping up AI anyways. This is unlikely to dissuade anyone from using AI and more likely to serve as evidence akin to "see! It's the tech of the future".