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[–] [email protected] 196 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It works. Well, it works about as well as your average LLM

[–] [email protected] 175 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

pi ends with the digit 9, followed by an infinite sequence of other digits.

That's a very interesting use of the word "ends".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's like how they called the fourth Friday the 13th movie "The Final Chapter".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

The Rolling Stones doing their final concert for about a hundred and fifty years now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

True but I think the Fast & the Furious franchise has a better shot at giving Pi a run for it's money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

TBF, if your goal is to generate the most valid sentence that directly answers the question, it's only one minor abstract noun that's broken here.

Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if there's a substantial drop in the probability of a digit being listed after the leading 9 (3.14159...), even, so it is "last" in a sense.

Edit again: Man, Baader-Meinhof so hard. Somehow pi to 5 digits came up more than once in 24 hours, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In other words, it doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Maybe it knows something about pi we don't.

It's infinite yet ends in a 9. It's a great mystery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Pi is 10 in base-pi

EDIT: 10, not 1

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I saw someone post this a few days ago, and someone else quickly pointed out that it is incorrect. This time I'll point out it is incorrect.

In base-pi, pi would be represented as 10. The place value of the right-most digit would be pi^0, and the next digit is pi^1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Indeed. 10 is pi in base-pi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mathematicians are weird enough that at least one of them has done calculations in base-pi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's pretty much what radians are. Well, they combine base pi with whatever base you're using for the coefficients.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42... +9.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hyperreal numbers go brrr.

I'm kind of curious what ways exactly using this in place of actual pi would change/break geometry. Obviously, it wouldn't become noticeable until you try to involve infinite structures.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I mean, it depends on what you're doing. Supervision always required, though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GPT-4 gives a correct answer to the question.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No clue what Amazon is using. The one I have access to gave a sane answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's probably some finetuning at play for Amazon's thing which makes it tend to always give a straight answer, instead of stepping outside of the box and doing something like correcting an implicit assumption.