I was asking chatgpt to convert an octal number to hexadecimal. It was spitting out wrong answers almost every time.
We seen in the screenshot bits being converted to hex, but not the failures that came before.
Essentially: the language prediction is not a calculator, and especially won’t work well on non-common patterns. It seems that some reasoning to break down the problem was done, but failed. Maybe a bit-shift?
In ChatGPT Plus: “You can’t math; send calculations to Python.”
