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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I gave GPT-4 a simple real-world question about how much alcohol volume there is in a certain weight (I think 16 grams) of a 40% ABV drink (the rest being water) and it gave complete nonsense answers on some attempts, and straight up refused to answer on others.

So I guess it still comes down to how often things appear in the training data.

(the real answer is roughly 6.99ml, weighing about 5.52grams)

After some follow-up prodding, it realized it's wrong and eventually provided a different answer (6.74ml), which was also wrong. With more follow-ups or additional prompting tricks, it might eventually get there, but someone would have to first tell it that it's wrong.