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Does his accuracy take a sudden precipitous fall when going from multiplying two three-digit numbers to two four-digit numbers?


I don't know about you, but when I do math without a calculator, my accuracy also drops precipitously whenever they add a digit.


Do you have self awareness to anticipate the drop in your accuracy and refuse to perform the operation?


I do anticipate it, but in the situations I'm asked to do such calculations, I don't usually have the option of refusing, nor would I want to. For most real would situations, it's generally better to arrive at a ballpark solution than to refuse to engage with the problem.


Ballpark solution is in a way refusing...


In the very unserious hypothetical I'm describing, I'd say Lloyd's capabilities match that of GPT-4. In this case, he's not a calculator, but he is a decent programmer, so like GPT-4 he quickly runs the operation through a script, rather than trying to figure it out in his head.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67ac17df-fd9c-800d-9d3d-03c66b3e86...

"The result of 720947×263647 is 190,075,513,709."


This is a solved problem, ChatGPT uses a python prompt to do arithmetic now. Just like you would… all good. You Can Just Check Your Own Claims




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