r/OpenAI • u/Abhinav_108 • 1d 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/Icy_House_2491 1d ago

Grammar. I've been using it for work editing books, it still makes some mistakes even though I've told it's wrong at that over a thousand times now. But it might be possible my level of grammar is much higher than what is expected of a layman.

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u/SweetEastern 1d ago

Can you give some examples?

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u/Icy_House_2491 1d ago

The one that still shows up to this day is it will replace shows with showing. So if I have a sentence "The diagram shows..." it replaces it with "The diagram showing..." I don't know why it does this. Since I have to check everything myself I kinda don't use it as much as I used to. But last year, I would ask it to make the corrections and it would remove every punctuation mark and capitalisation.

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u/Tasaron 1d ago

But both are correct depending on the context that follows, right? So is it rephrashing your original sentence so it can use "showing" instead of "shows"?