Okay, but just to be clear, the problem is not that it can’t do a timer. The problem is that it claims to be able to and even produces a result which looks plausible. It means, you cannot trust it to do anything that you can’t easily verify. If they could fix that overconfidence in a year, it would be much better.
This guy looks like a psychopath in every photo.
There’s a guy on tiktok called Huskistaken (yes, i know) that demonstrates repeatedly just how useless chatgpt is.
The first video of his I saw was him playing a clip of altman stating that it doesn’t have a timer and chat gpt countering that it does.
He then gets it to start a timer to time his long it takes him to run a mile and almost instantly tells it to stop. It tells him it was +7 minutes!
FatherPi on YouTube highlights how bad all the LLMs are.
How many Rs in strawberry?
ChatGPT and other LLMs need access to tools for things like this just like you and I do. If you ask me how many seconds have elapsed since I started typing this, I would give you a convincing estimate. I would need a Casio watch to give you an exact answer.
Meanwhile Siri could do this in 2010
