98
AI summary of toilet paper (europe.pub)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This is the bad place.

It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

I hate this.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

The math isn't even right unless I'm missing something.

3.9" x 4" sheets = sq in per sheet

15.6" x 224 sheets = 3494.4 sq in per roll

3494.4 / 12 = 291.2 sq ft per roll

not sure where 776.5 even came from

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    LLMs are notoriously bad at math.

    Or rather, they're completely incapable of it. Even the most "advanced" AI systems basically just say "hmm... I think this might be a math problem" and then pass the data into a regular math API to do the calculation.

    But a simple summarization bot isn't going to be wired up for calling a bunch of external tools, so... yeah, it just spits out an answer that looks statistically correct without having any real bearing on reality.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
    • 3.9" x 4" = 15.6 sq in per sheet
    • 15.6 / 144 = 0.11 sq ft per sheet (approx)
    • 0.11 x 224 = 24.3 sq ft per roll (approx)
    • 24.3 x 32 = 776.5 sq ft per pack (approx)
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •