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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm confused, were you expecting a specific answer?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, I was expecting to know what day Feb 11th was, since you know, it's February right now?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should have checked the calendar then (:

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Easier to use 3,000,000x the compute power it took to get to the moon and get the wrong answer, than look at a calendar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah ambiguous user input leading to incorrect output. Aka shin in shit out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Idk why people go to hurdles to defend bad software engineering only when it comes to LLMs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, regular ok Google used to get it right. Understanding the context is the basic thing digital assistants used to have. If I tell you to come meet me on the 13th, would you assume Feb or April?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ah day of the week in a specific month. Calendars don't lie lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Fuck AI, but garbage in, garbage out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gemini used MM DD YYYY? Ouch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's fine, when the month is written as a word.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's great for naming files, but not that ideal for conversations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That is just a matter of what you get used to, there is no fundamental diffidence as long as the numbers follow the scale one way or the other.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

ISO 8601 represent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I typically use Wolfram alpha for more complicated date math, and it answers a slightly modified version of this question correctly: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=what+day+is+the+11th