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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’ve been asking a bunch of next-to-obvious questions about things that don’t really matter and it’s been pretty good. It still confidently lies when it gives instructions but a fair amount of time it does what I asked it for.

I’d prefer to not have it, because it’s ethically putrid. But it converts currency and weights and translates things as well as expected and in half the time i’d spend doing it manually. Plus I kind of hope using it puts them out of business. It’s not like I’d pay for it.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I refuse to believe that it's in any way better or faster at unit and currency conversion than plain Google or DuckDuckGo. Literally type "100 EUR to USD" and you'll get an almost instant answer. Same with units: "100 feet to meters".

    And if you're using it, you're helping their business. It's as simple as that.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    100%. Unit conversion is a solved problem, and it is impossible for an AI to be faster or more accurate than any of the existing converters.

    I do not need an AI calculator, because I have no desire to need to double check my calculator.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    But it converts currency and weights and translates things as well as expected and in half the time i’d spend doing it manually

    So does qalc, and it can also do arithmetic and basic calculus quickly and (gasp) correctly!

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