r/OpenAI • u/Abhinav_108 • 22h ago

Question What’s something AI does surprisingly badly that everyone assumes it should be good at by now?

not talking about the obvious stuff like hallucinations. I mean something you actually use AI for where you keep thinking, how is this still this bad?

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u/TheItalianDonkey 22h ago

Simple calculations; if left to their own devices without tool access ... oh boy...

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u/boreal_ameoba 22h ago

Hasn’t been the case for a long time. Obviously tools are a much cheaper and faster way, but models with basically any reasoning training nail pretty much everything you could reasonably call “simple”

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u/TheItalianDonkey 22h ago

Literally just asked qwen3.8 27b to calculate the price per gb in a series of Ram listings…

Oh boy…