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Re:Generative AI and the widening software developer knowled... by JohnFen on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @01:36PM (#39607492)
> calculators can't be wrong.

Sure they can. There are numerous discussions around the net about this fact, but here is a reasonable high-level overview.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/can-a-calculator-be-wrong/

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Re:Generative AI and the widening software developer knowled... by jmuguy on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:31PM (#39608809)
They can't be wrong in the way that LLMs can be, which is the exact reason that using them for this comparison falls apart - but yes if we're splitting hairs they can be wrong in the same way that javascript is wrong when you ask it to add two floats together.
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