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Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta. (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by diz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I love to show that kind of shit to AI boosters. (In case you're wondering, the numbers were chosen randomly and the answer is incorrect).

They go waaa waaa its not a calculator, and then I can point out that it got the leading 6 digits and the last digit correct, which is a lot better than it did on the "softer" parts of the test.

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[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Why would you think the machine that’s designed to make weighted guesses at what the next token should be would be arithmetically sound?

That’s not how any of this works (but you already knew that)

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Idk personally i kind of expect the ai makers to have at least had the sense to allow their bots to process math with a calculator and not guesswork. That seems like, an absurdly low bar both for testing the thing as a user as well as a feature to think of.

Didn't one model refer scientific questions to wolfram alpha? How do they smartly decide to do this and not give them basic math processing?

[–] diz@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also, I just noticed something really fucking funny:

(arrows are for the sake of people like llllll...)

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