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they are both shit at adding and subtracting numbers, dates and whatnot... they both cant do basic math unfortunately
It's a language model, I don't know why you would expect math. Tell it to output code to perform the math, that'll work just fine.
Then it should say so instead of attempting and failing at the one thing computers are supposed to be better than us at
I know. It's still baffling how much it messes up when adding two numbers.
I just asked GPT-4:
Its reply:
It's not baffling at all... It's a language model, not a math robot. It's designed to write English sentences, not to solve math problems.