I have been using Claude to help me with very advanced math. It is spectacular at learning your education and then explaining what you need to know next. So I put it on another task and it was horrible. So I’m learning to fly and the old plane lacked critical speed data - like when you’d fall out of the sky if you go slower. Important stuff. So I worked with Claude to pull together a summary sheet. And you don’t need to know what this means, but speeds are measured two ways a few miles apart: CAS and IAS. BTW, planes from that era measure in mph, which the official book online tells you. (Now they measure in knots, like a boat - about 10-15% different). So I asked it to create the standard table of ablut seven entries. One column for what, one for CAS and one for IAS. NOW because it got from various sources, it put some numbers in mph and some in knots - even though the official manufacturer doc is all in mph. So I had that corrected. And I’m feeling pretty good. But I’m even wondering where it got the numbers not in mph. Now this plane had a modification that allows some Of the numbers to be 3-4 mph less. So I had it add two more columns with the adjusted numbers. When it did so, however - with a new column for both adjusted CAS and IAS, I noticed one of the numbers on the same row (ias) was 5 lower, but CAS was only 4. This makes no sense: they both have the same offset. What ensued was a long session of not asking it for N answer but telling it how to get it. And it kept going off tangents on things totally unrelated and useless it thought I ought to know. After much prompting it sort of got there. I asked it why it kept giving numbers that were inconsistent. I pointed out a 14 year old with intro algebra would have required less step by step, and would catch and correct such errors. Basically, it said that such a kid would naturally think about consistency (like everything in mph and deltas that were they same in the same row) because it would have a scratchpad, and because humans naturally check their own work for inconsistencies So overall, a pretty bad experience. I ended up having to tell it point by point what was wrong and how to fix it. And people are excited for GAI. Good luck with that. submitted by /u/Recent-Day3062
Originally posted by u/Recent-Day3062 on r/ArtificialInteligence