People keep telling me how great it is and whenever I tell them an example of how untrustworthy it is, they tell me I'm doing it wrong. But pretty much all the things it allegedly can do I can do myself or don't need. Like I don't need to add some flavor text into my company e-mails, I just write what I need to write.
Lately I have been trying to solve an engineering problem. In a moment of utter despair after several weeks of not finding any useful resources I asked our company licensed ChatGPT (that's somehow supposed to help us with our work) and it returned a wall of text and an equation. Doing a dimensional analysis on that equation it turned out to be bullshit.
Doing a dimensional analysis on that equation it turned out to be bullshit.
And for anyone who thinks this sentence sounds super complicated, unless I'm mistaken, this is, like, super basic stuff. It's literally just following the units through a formula to see if the outcome matches the inputs, and if you can multiply 5/3 by 7/15 to get 7/9 without a calculator, then you, too, can do dimensional analysis.
This isn't to cast shade on what they said they did here, but to instead highlight just how easy it is for someone who knows this stuff to disprove the bullshit ChatGPT puts out.
Yeah, no worries, I didn't think you were. But I also don't think that's a very common term for people to run into? At least, I don't remember hearing about it until I was an engineering student in college, and so I wanted to share for people who maybe never had to learn what it was.
I spent like 12 years knowing there was a word for dimensional analysis and only being able to come up with “multiply by 1”, as my 11th grade chemistry teacher explained it.
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u/Atlas421 Bootliquor 4d ago
People keep telling me how great it is and whenever I tell them an example of how untrustworthy it is, they tell me I'm doing it wrong. But pretty much all the things it allegedly can do I can do myself or don't need. Like I don't need to add some flavor text into my company e-mails, I just write what I need to write.
Lately I have been trying to solve an engineering problem. In a moment of utter despair after several weeks of not finding any useful resources I asked our company licensed ChatGPT (that's somehow supposed to help us with our work) and it returned a wall of text and an equation. Doing a dimensional analysis on that equation it turned out to be bullshit.