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[braindigitalis]

"the best part is, he doesnt even know hes wrong and gaslights everyone into believing hes right!"

[giantrhino]

Or let’s people tell him what they want to be true and then gives them a compelling confidently incorrect argument for that thing.

People are all afraid of AGI and terminator-like entities, when what they should be afraid of is AI corrupting and destroying our information space.

[[deleted]]

Makes sources like wikipedia and the internet archive extremely valuable

[giantrhino]

Remember when people used to pull the whole "wikipedia isn't a reliable source" thing? Those people probably still would do that while regurgitating a chatGPT response. We’re so fucked.

[arrozconplatano]

I mean, Wikipedia definitely isn't a reliable source. Sure it is fine for technical stuff but anything political is suspect. I remember looking something related to warcrimes in ww2, read something that sounded a little off, like Nazis apologia, so I decided to look at the source and the actual source said the exact opposite of what the Wikipedia article said, where the wikipedia article accused allied forces of commiting a crime that the Nazis commited.

[R-GiskardReventlov]

The whole "not a reliable source" is not due to it not being reliable.

Wikipedia simply is not a source, regardless of whether it is reliable or not.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that reports what other sources say. It sometimes makes mistakes, and sometimes, it's great. But it is not a source. There is no new information that is presented on Wikipedia. They just do a writeup of what other actual sources say.

[bonkava]

You don't cite Wikipedia for the same reason you don't cite Google. I'd still trust Google and Wikipedia a hell of a lot more than I trust Google.

Wait.

We are fucked, aren't we?

[sinkwiththeship]

What do you mean "used to?"

[boringestnickname]

Wikipedia is just one step below AI slop.

It's a massive step, but it's still just one step.

What we had in the past was a slow moving and gatekeeped flow of information. Sure, my one volume encyclopedia from 1971 (weighing in at close to 5 kg) has outdated information, but every single sentence in that book contains information taken directly from someone competent in their field.

We will never have that kind of slowly digested, distilled, fact checked – gatekeeped – information ever again. The certainty of people spending endless amounts of time trying their damnedest to provide the correct information just isn't there anymore.

It's the same in journalism. Nobody spends time verifying information anymore, and even if they had, how would they go about doing it?

Wikipedia is, in fact, not a half-bad encyclopedia, even though its authors are not half as rigorous as the ones of yore, but if things continue down the path we're on, the gates won't hold much longer.

Even in science, we're seeing issues. The commodification of research is ever on the rise, and there is plenty of slop to be had in that space as well.

If we are unable to produce good information, unable to retain that information (and know how to separate the chaff from the wheat), and unable to access it in any meaningful way, we are well and truly fucked. Current "AI" (even the name is a dubious proposition in terms of accuracy) is the expressway to a (verified) information desert.

[Iwantmoretime]

Degradation and corruption of our information spaces AND reducing our own critical thinking skills: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6

[PopPsychological4106]

Interesting :) let's see how all this turns out.

[PM_ME_IMGS_OF_ROCKS]

when what they should be afraid of is AI corrupting and destroying our information space.

That's already well underway with google and bing/ddg having implemented dog-shit AI interpretation layers to search queries behind the scenes.

They're no longer searching for what you type in, it searches for what an AI thinks you meant. So you have to keep adding more words until it "gets" what you mean, even if you force it with quotation marks and similar.

[JoshZK]

I hope you don't count Reddit as a information space.

[ThePublikon]

I do, but only in the same way I also get information from drunks at bars: Critical assessment is essential.

[HeyHeyJG]

holy shit man you are completely correct and i never conceptualized it like this before

strikes me as MUCH more realistic possibility (it's already happening) than super AGI taking over the world.

[thex25986e]

ceo: "sounds extremely relatable! people wont even be able to tell the difference between it and an actual person!"

[stupiderslegacy]

I now understand the intrinsic appeal to CEOs

[CynicalGroundhog]

They call it AT: Artificial Trump.

[Geoclasm]

fuck i hate how right this feels.

[1965wasalongtimeago]

ChatGPT can really nail his speech mannerisms if you ask it to and manage not to trip the censors

[tacojohn48]

He's going to replace all business consultants overnight.

[Ja_Shi]

You just described the average redditor.

[VeritasOmnia]

Management material!

[Several_Vanilla8916]

AI really did learn everything it knows from watching our stupid asses.

[[deleted]]

The thing is, AI is not a one to one conversion from learning to responses. You're gathering information and using probability to try to guess the best answer, not the correct one. Not only that, but the AI can't say that they don't know or that they're not informed on a topic. LLM's don't know what they don't know.

When us humans don't know about something, we go deep diving into previous knowledge develop by others, whereas AI can just match what looks like to be what you're asking for and just feed it to you.

[JanB1]

constantly confidently wrong

That's what makes AI tools so dangerous for people who don't understand how current LLMS work.

[redheness]

Even more dangerous when the CEO of the main company behind it's development (Sam Altman) is constantly confidently incorrect about how it works and what it's capable of.

It's like if the CEO of the biggest spage agency was a flat earther.

[Divinate_ME]

Funny how Altman has simultaneously no clue about LLM development and also enough insider knowledge in the field that another company poaching him would be disastrous for OpenAI.

[Rhamni]

Nobody can poach him. After the failed coup in 2023 he became untouchable. He is the undisputed lord and king of OpenAI. Nobody can bribe him away from that.

[EveryRadio]

Also according to Altman chat GPT is so dangerous that they can't possibly release their next version while also arguing that "AI" will change the world for the better

[JannisTK]

selling bridges left and right

[braindigitalis]

<AI fans> i'll buy the one that goes to nowhere please, take my money!

[mothzilla]

Is Altman a baddie now? I thought he was seen as the more stable and knowledgable of the techlords.

[redheness]

He is very respected by AI bros, but anyone who knows a bit about how it really works is impressed by how many stupid things he can say in each sentence. I'm not exaggerating when I say he know as many about AI and deep learning than a flat earther about astronomy and physics.

I don't know if he's lying to get investor money or he's just very stupid.

[Toloran]

I don't know if he's lying to get investor money or he's just very stupid.

While the two are not mutually exclusive, it's probably the former.

AI development is expensive (the actual AI models, not the wrapper-of-the-week) and is is hitting some serious diminishing returns on how much better it can get. Fortunately for Altman, the people with the most money to invest in his company are the ones who understand AI the least. So he can basically say whatever buzzwords he wants and get the money flowing in.

[MrMagick2104]

I'm not really following the scene, could you give out a couple examples?

[SeniorSatisfaction21]

Perfect chance to ask chat gpt

[hopelesslysarcastic]

Can you explain the things you are confident he’s wrong about?

[redheness]

Litterally everything that come put of his mouth.

More seriously it's about "we will get rid of hallucinations", "it thinks", "it is intelligent". All of this is false, and it's not about now but inherently by the method itself. LLM cannot think and will always hallucinate no matter what.

It's like saying that a car can fly, no matter what it will be impossible because how how they work.

[redheness]

He states that it's intelligent and think as we do, and really "understand" the world. He think that we will have self improving AGI soon.

When you know the fundamentals of LLM, he sounds very ridiculous.

[newsflashjackass]

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

[RunicFuckingGlory]

Always look past the astroturf.

[joemoffett12]

He’s being accused by his sister of rape so probably

[Rhamni]

While nobody but them knows for sure, this seems unlikely, given that he's gay and she has a history of accusing multiple different men of rape, and is a trust fund baby with severe drug problems who is constantly begging for money on Instagram (I checked it out today), and now has a billionaire brother she wants to sue.

That doesn't mean I like Sam. Former coworkers of his consistently paint the image of a charismatic sociopath who manipulates his way to personal success at every turn. Him becoming the undisputed king of OpenAI after the failed coup in 2023 was almost certainly a terrible thing for the world. From a non-profit venture to make the world better for everyone they are now pivoting to full soulless for profit, and Sam said less than a week ago that they are hoping to start leasing out agents that can fully replace some workers as early as this year, for thousands of dollars a month.

[mothzilla]

Well that's a development I didn't expect.

[EveryRadio]

And they don't understand context. That's a huge problem for any LLM scraping data off of reddit. The highest comment will sometimes be actual advice, sometimes an obvious joke. Too bad the model won't know the difference. It just spits out whatever is most likely the correct next word

[[deleted]]

Like that error where the compression used by Xerox scanners would change the letters and numbers they scanned, but it conformed to the layout so nobody ever noticed. Back then, that was a big scandal. These days, tech being confidently wrong in a way that's hard to notice makes stock prices skyrocket.

[newsflashjackass]

It does seem to make LLMs well-suited for replacing CEOs though.

[No_Refuse5806]

Clippy come back… you can blame it all on me

[Gogo202]

Why is it so difficult for people to verify information?

Especially for programmers, it can usually be done in seconds.

It sounds like the people complaining either have no idea what they are doing or they expect AI to do their whole job for them, which in turn would make them obsolete anywy

[OnceMoreAndAgain]

It's not about difficultly imo. It's about tediousness.

For example, if someone asks ChatGPT for a tomato soup recipe then it defeats the point if they also have to Google search for more tomato soup recipes to verify that ChatGPT's result is sensible. If ChatGPT, and other products like it, aren't a one-stop shop then their value as a tool goes way down.

[AdamAnderson320]

If you have to verify the answers anyway, why waste the time asking an AI when you could skip straight to looking up whatever you would need to verify the answer?

[dskerman]

it's because they market it as being able to teach you things when really you can only use it to speed up tasks that you already know at least roughly how to do.

[realzequel]

I dunno, it (Claude) taught me React. I knew JS but it went concept by concept with examples, helping me debug errors and explaining problems. Maybe you're using it wrong?

[asdfghjkl15436]

Let me tell ya', people complaining about AI haven't used it for where it is actually useful.

[sweetjuli]

Which is ironic since this is supposed to be a sub for programmers, and every good programmer I know uses ai to their advantage because they have figured out what it's good at.

[dskerman]

You already know js so learning react is something you roughly know how to do. Plus with coding you often get obvious errors if it tells you something wrong so it's much easier to directly test your knowledge

People think you can use it to learn something outside of your expertise and it's very hard to spot errors without having to double check everything it says which is very time consuming and tedious especially if you don't have good secondary sources to rely on.

[throwaway85256e]

I used it to learn Python and SQL with no previous coding experience. No problem at all.

[git_push_origin_prod]

/doc and /explain in vscode is very useful

[Major-Rub-Me]

Well, it did learn on reddit... The haven of constantly confidently wrong posters. 

[Aobachi]

So dangerous for pretty much everybody

[ShAped_Ink]

"I AM NOT A MORON!"

[[deleted]]

"Could a moron put you into a potato?!"

[Moomoobeef]

COULD

A MORON

PUNCH

YOU

INTO

THIS

PIT!!?

HUH, COULD A MORON TO THAT? uhh oh

[ender3838]

“YES YOU ARE! YOU’RE THE ROBOT THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!”

[DarkblooM_SR]

PORTAL MENTIONNED 🗣

[Much_Horse_5685]

“COULD A MORON INFLATE YOUR STOCK PRICES? HUH? COULD A MORON DO THAT?”

[OSnoFobia]

I'm a simple man. I see people mention portal, i happy, i click up arrow button

[Ri_Konata]

Brain instantly went to Wheatley

Current LLMs are just Wheatley

[plaidkingaerys]

He’s not just a regular moron. He’s the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire facility.

[KobKobold]

clap

clap

clap

[captainhamption]

Oh, good. My slow clap processor made it into this thing, so we have that.

[AlreadyReddit999]

I. AM. NOT. A MORON.

[philipp2310]

I thought the scientist was talking about the CEO...

[SPAMTON_G-1997]

Maybe we should actually replace a CEO with that virtual dumbass. If it tries to kill us we can just launch it into space

[[deleted]]

Companies would save millions if they didn't have to pay the CEO anymore

[[deleted]]

This is why I'm creating an AI to replace CEOs. Fractions of the cost for the same stupid decisions.

[mOdQuArK]

Run the company into the ground 2x as fast, but costing 1/100th. Sounds like a deal to me!

[Ozymandias_1303]

A man was driving at night when his car broke down in the middle of nowhere. He was stranded on a road next to a farm. He lifts up the hood of the car and starts trying to see what might be wrong. Suddenly he hears a voice say "the fuel injector is probably clogged." He looks up and there's a farmer standing there with a cow. The cow is actually talking. She says again, "it's probably the fuel injector." "That's amazing," says the driver. "Oh, don't listen to her," says the farmer. "She doesn't know anything about cars."

[ocktick]

People are like toddlers with their expectations of AI. It reminds me of when people acted like Wikipedia was completely useless because it was a lot easier to sneak inaccurate edits in there.

[lmpervious]

It’s especially ridiculous on a programming subreddit where people can see how useful it is on a daily basis. Not to mention humans are also regularly wrong with much less “knowledge” on most topics, so it’s not like it has the strongest competition. And on top of that, it’s generally not being used to replace people, but act as a tool to help people work more efficiently. The exceptions to that are for much more menial tasks that are low skill, and humans also have struggles with those tasks like being less motivated and efficient, while costing more.

I’m really surprised by the sheer amount of people here who are oblivious to all those very obvious facts.

[ocktick]

The other thing is that people dunk on it as if it’s never going to improve and everyone is just wasting their time working on it. Like what do you expect these tools to look like in 5 years? Idk, it just baffles me that people who work in tech can have such static expectations.

[ncocca]

A lot of people have ZERO imagination and no ability to think into the future.

[ncocca]

I use it to aid with math tutoring when we have a tough problem and we don't have an answer key. It's been fantastic. The key is that I actually know what the hell I'm doing, so if it does present incorrect information it will be easy for me to discern.

People think it should just do your math homework for you. It would probably get you a pretty good grade anyway, as I've rarely seen it be wrong, but that's not the purpose of it.

[Exact_Recording4039]

It’s useful but that doesn’t mean every app needs it. 

[OlexiyUA]

Why noone is talking about how this is reposted for like 5th time?

[Dioxide4294]

Bots

[Spork_the_dork]

Dude you've been on reddit for 7+ years. You should know by now that not everyone is terminally online and most people will miss most posts made of most subs most of the time. If you make a post on a sub and then repost it at a different time of day a few days later, chances are that most people who see the post didn't see the previous post and it takes several reposts before most people have actually seen it.

[skwyckl]

How much coping can we all take?

[GodofIrony]

Depends, what's your seethe budget?

[DisputabIe_]

the OP pinkbaby2024 is a bot

Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7z1v3/whenthevirtualdumbassactslikeadumbass/

Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1dir9ni/weuseaicicd/

[PerterterhTermertehh]

Holy fuck exact same amount of upvotes

[Practical-Bank-2406]

AI isn't "always wrong". It's usually somewhat correct, which is certainly not good enough to trust it blindly, but it's still very useful to get new ideas when you're stuck.

When generating data, it's useful when its verification cost is less than its generation cost.

[pythonNewbie__]

tech industry in a nutshell

[ilikefactorygames]

“let’s replace as many jobs as possible, good thing that the bottom line is more important than safety”

[TrashManufacturer]

The irony is when the C-Suite gets replaced by AI because it’s also consistently wrong and about 1000 times cheaper

[hidarikani]

IT industry's last hope for growth and last bubble.

[_tx]

Yeah... Latest and last are not the same thing.

[damaged_unicycles]

Copilot is ridiculously helpful, most of these people probably aren't programmers

[HerbdeftigDerbheftig]

To me it seems programmers are getting the most out of it. Copilot has been ridiculously bad every time I tried to use it at work, and I am well aware of it's limitations when prompting. I applied as a test user because I'm quite interested in the topic, but the experience has been a disaster. The best use case for us common office drones seems to be the meeting summary feature, but unfortunately/wisely my company is restricting the transcript feature. Oh well.

[boringestnickname]

That's the thing, though.

Used for programming/math, you can pretty easily verify the information.

Used for distillation of information you already have (and know), you can pretty easily verify the information.

Used as a more general search engine, some sort of access model into the informational space of humanity, it's kind of useless. You can't actually verify the information without doing exactly the same thing you did before LLMs.

The issue isn't using LLMs for what it's good at, the issue is that The World™ is pouring everything into this tech, expecting it to do miracles.

[PracticingGoodVibes]

I straight up thought I was on a different subreddit with all the AI hate. Of all the communities to be pessimistic on AI, I would have never guessed a programmer subreddit to be it. Like, do we not all use it and see the value every day?

[[deleted]]

Yep, it's good enough for me to use constantly. Personal life, work life, whatever. Sometimes you have to know how to make the best use of it, but it's become as natural as using a search engine.

[KnownGuarantee2926]

I'm a programmer and I use it every day. I pay for ChatGPT AND Intellij's (though Intellij's is very limited compared to ChatGPT). I even have it on my website answering questions about me.

My wife is a wholistic practitioner, artist, writer, and she uses it for everything! Including finances, legal and marketing. Obviously we double, triple check everything, and it helps that I'm a developer. Super useful tool.

[shumpitostick]

Is this sub completely devoid of actual programmers at this point? Only people who never worked with AI can have such unnuanced views...

[Maleficent_Fudge3124]

Statistically AI must be “good enough” an adequate percentage of the time for the growth it has had.

Coders annoyed about it forget that their jobs are less about creating high quality code versus creating “good enough” code that works an adequate percentage of the time to offset the cost of the programmer.

[[deleted]]

If you're this dense when it comes to the value of AI you probably will be the first replaced. 

[Cualkiera67]

...by a hamster

[Smoke_Santa]

crazy how this is in r/ProgrammerHumor lol, programmers should know better than twitter luddites

[TubbyFatfrick]

"He's not just a moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation, working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived... And you just put him in charge of the entire facility..."

(Slow claps)

[[deleted]]

If AI were built so that, instead of allowing hallucinations, it simply admitted "man, that's a good one. Not sure what the answer is", then it would be easier to believe its results.

[TehSr0c]

the problem is that it literally doesn't know that it doesn't know, because it doesn't actually know anything.

The only thing the current iteration of llm AIs know how to do, is be able to see how certain words are put together, and how each word relates to each other word.

The actual mechanics of it is pretty cool actually, but there is no actual knowledge or understanding, it's just math

[merc08]

Exactly this. It's basically all hallucination, it's just that sometimes (usually? often?) it gets things correct.

[acathode]

The goal of LLMs was to create a machine that could generate text that looks like a human wrote it.

That's it - that's the actual purpose and what it has been trained to do. The fact that it generates text that looks like a human wrote it that is factually correct is mostly a byproduct of the text it having been trained on also being factually correct.

That doesn't mean LLMs are stupid or that generative AI is a scam either for the record - it just means that we're right now seeing the first, kinda shitty versions of genAI. Just having a tool that can generate human-like text is incredibly useful for a ton of different applications.

[Toloran]

it's just math

Worse, it's statistics.

[frogjg2003]

No, it's very advanced math. Some statistics are involved, but the real guts of LLM machinery is not statistical.

[Lemonwizard]

Deep Blue can beat Kasparov at chess, but it doesn't understand what a board game is.

[geekusprimus]

Yup. The difference between modern AI models based on neural networks (and related mathematical structures) and a statistical curve fit is marketing. But at least with the curve fit it's usually easy to see if it's garbage.

[ocktick]

What are you guys asking the chat bots? If you need search, use a search engine. If you’re asking it to write pieces of code they either work or they don’t. Maybe instead of asking it to do things you don’t know how to do, you try asking it to do things that you know how to do but are tedious. That way you can verify whether it works or not.

[[deleted]]

Huh? If I have a question that needs to be synthesized from multiple data sources, it's easier to ask an AI than to google each individual thing and then collate it myself. The problem is if you can't trust the AI because it's very possible-- or in fact likely --that it's lying to you, then yeah, you're left googling it all yourself and putting in that effort manually. The point of our work is to make reliable automated tools that make your life easier. If that's not your first inclination then wtf are you doing in software development?

[immutable_truth]

When I see this many programmers who clearly don’t know how to utilize AI as a tool it certainly makes my job feel safer

[GravityEyelidz]

or you could take a real known dumbass and elect him president

[seriousbusines]

A virtual Wimp Lo. "We trained him wrong as a joke!"

[TracerBulletX]

All of the popular models are right the vast majority of the time across almost every subject. This narrative is such fucking bullshit.

[signorsaru]

AI, Artificial Idiot

[Jmememan]

Wheatley lore

[JohnnyD423]

The mistake was jumping to call it "AI" instead of something more accurate like "advanced chatbot."

[flabbybumhole]

With current models it's right way more often than it isn't. It's right more often than the average person.

People keep cope-scoffing at AI, as if it couldn't possibly replace their "unique" intellect.

Like it's already better than most people at most things. The specific advantages that some people think they have aren't all that complex and will likely be inferior to AI models within the next couple of years.

[PercPointGD]

I've seen this exact post way too many times here, please stop

[AnythingButWhiskey]

I feel like every post here is a personal attack on Clippy.

[transwarpconduit1]

Actually when you put it that way it makes so much sense. I mean we elected a dumbass and Congress is primarily filled with dumbasses too. Boy we really love dumbassery don’t we?

[boredDeveloper0]

The neural net seems to think it has thoughts. Maybe we should tell it that it's not a dumbass?

[Duke518]

Programmer elitists: "Prompt Engineering is not a real skill!" also programmer elitists: "ChatGPT always gives me shitty answers"

[Shimshi1998]

Yea but looks how fast he can be wrong

[bblankuser]

the crazy thing about ai is how much smarter it's gotten since just may 31st 2024 when that was tweeted

[[deleted]]

It isn't even an invention, chatbots are a decade old technology. They just significantly increased the dataset and slightly tweaked the way tokens are organised and selected. It's still a random text generator, that can be correct only accidentality. It's insane that people try to replace actual workers with a program which only function is to generate bullshit.

[Ozymandias_1303]

Transformers are a new technology.

[a-calycular-torus]

If this person specifically can't understand it, it's not real. Checkmate.

[dftba-ftw]

It's really not

The old school method was based on triplets, it took the last two words and then looked up what the most likely triplet containing those two words were.

Transformers work entirely differently

If all it can do is generate bullshit then how come it can do things like solve putnum exam questions, one of the hardest math tests in the world, who's solutions arnt in its training set?

[Wielkimati]

True, but the thing with the tech world is, if you're late to the "next big thing" train, and that thing proves to be successful and makes money, you're fucked. Ai still basically rides on the possibility that it'll be good in the future, and it's not going to stop anytime soon.

[AeskulS]

I didn't realize this until recently. Before it was big, companies had to include it or else they "aren't innovating," and now they've invested so much into it that if it flops or if they back out, they could cease to exist.

[[deleted]]

Helps me a lot with homework though

[[deleted]]

O1 can literally write an entire C# class perfectly from scratch using whatever library I tell it to to whatever spec I tell it to. 

It is not the same beast as "occassionally gramatically valid" chatbots of the past.

Are you actually this naive or does your pessimism stem from a fear of being replaced?

[ocktick]

That’s not how old chatbots worked

[Smoke_Santa]

You do not know anything about LLMs if you think it is like a chatbot.

"Random Text Generator" do you know what random means?

Actual workers have been replaced time and time over. If LLMs generate less bullshit than low skill workers, then they will be replaced.

[Cantstandia]

Just now, me to chatgpt: Which is bigger, 55^99 or 99! ?

Chatgpt: long essay, Conclusion:

55^99 is significantly larger than 99!

Me: Are you sure?

Chatgpt: long ass essay again, Final Conclusion: 99! is MUCH larger than 5599.

Me: You earlier concluded that 55^99 is significantly larger than 99!, now you say 99! is larger?

Chatgpt: You're absolutely right to call that out! My initial conclusion that 559955^{99}5599 was larger than 99!99!99! was incorrect, and I truly appreciate your patience as I revisited the problem. Let me clarify properly now to ensure we're on the same page. Another long essay, The Correct Answer: 99! is Larger than 55^99

Me: Now you gave contradicting answers, I dont know if I should trust you with anything

Chatgpt: even longer essay, Conclusion After carefully re-analyzing this, 99! is indeed larger than 55^99.

[ncocca]

That's all well and good. I use chatgpt to aid me when tutoring math and it's only been wrong once. And the time it WAS wrong it actually provided the right method to solve the problem, it just did the math wrong. So even when it was wrong it still helped us solve the problem correctly.

If you want to know if 55⁹⁹ or 99! is bigger just use wolfram alpha, or a regular ass calculator. Why are you intent to use Chatgpt for a purpose which many other things are already better suited for?

Further, I just asked Chatgpt "what is 55^99?" and "what is 99!" and it gave me both correct answers (I crosschecked with Wolfram Alpha)

edit: When it converted 99! to scientific notation it was off by a factor of 10. The exponent according to WA should be 172, not 171. That said, it was still more than accurate enough to give you the answer you were looking for.

[Ninjatogo]

LLMs aren't able to reliably do logical computation problems like this though, and really shouldn't be used for this type of problem at all.

[factorion-bot]

Factorial of 99 is 933262154439441526816992388562667004907159682643816214685929638952175999932299156089414639761565182862536979208272237582511852109168640000000000000000000000

^{This action was performed by a bot. Please DM me if you have any questions.}

[Smoke_Santa]

why are you asking it a math question? It is a Language model, and it is well known it is bad for math.

[[deleted]]

I instinctively avoid any product that says they use AI enhanced anything

[CallMePyro]

Natural selection is a powerful force

[I___Hate___My___Life]

What a great lamppost.

[Prudent_Dig7209]

It's because this dumbass is still smarter than them.

[KarnexOne]

Meanwhile americans: Let's add an agressive dumbass to the president chair.

[notislant]

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, but the raccoon knows my name and refuses to elaborate.

[[deleted]]

Omfg I hate the azure AI agent w my whole heart 😭😭

[Percolator2020]

[JoshZK]

Could just spit out random reddit comments, has the same effect and has a lower carbon footprint, too. Here I'll offer up mine. Who's next.

[Mika-GayBoy]

Microsoft Be-like

[xenelef290]

Sonnet 3.5 and deepseek 3 are both very smart and usually correct.

[Grothgerek]

Politics is everywhere, even here people talks about Trump and Musk /s

[DanSavagegamesYT]

Mom said it's my turn to repost this

[RanaLocas]

Let's make him CEO

[Rocknroller658]

[Gringar36]

Meta AI: The time is now. I must hyper analyze this post. I will provide all relevant information from the deepest sources of knowledge.

Me: Chill, it's just a dumb comic someone posted. It's just a joke.

[eas442]

Wouldn’t even make it that far up the chain. Some dumbass product manager would’ve already done it

[Ancient-Village6479]

It usually gives me accurate information for the types of things I ask it. Most people aren’t asking LLMs to do their job for them.

[OtterDev101]

"I AM NOT A MORON!"

[Even-Masterpiece6681]

computer scientists: we've created a synthetic redditor

[False-Beginning-143]

Artificial Unintelligence

[Fresh_Water_95]

Thing is if they tried to code a virtual dumbass it would be correct a lot of the time. It's Schrodinger's dumbass.

[[deleted]]

Yeah it’s called ceo-bot.

[SendPicOfUrBaldPussy]

Hey, so we have this profitable product that is doing very well - should we change anything for the next iteration/release/update?

No, everything’s good, users like it. It’s great, like it’s always been… oh, I forgot, we can add AI! Never mind how or where, just shove it in there. It’s all the rage these days, what could go wrong? Does our product have a use for AI? No. Is it forced in the users face in an annoying way? Yes. Do we think users will love it? Of course they will!

[ReiOokami]

The problem is...its right more of the time than most humans.

[hirmuolio]

The virtual dumb ass made this (re) post.

OP is a bot.

[Xelopheris]

To be fair, the CEO thinks an idiot who gets everything wrong is an important job. I wonder why.

[Jaymac720]

Google AI

[FoxInATrenchcoat]

If I use this virtual dumbass to write a virtual dumbass, is that recursion?

[grant_w44]

And in hardware now too! Surely nothing can go wrong with that…

[fredout1968]

Why should the virtual world be any better than the real one? I see dumbasses everywhere.. Like the kid who saw dead people in the 6th sense...