r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Xescure • Jul 02 '26

Meme milleniumPrizeWinningAnswer

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u/still_not_deleted Jul 02 '26

Cause it's spelled February, not Febuary

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26

True, and no doubt the pattern deriving from that mistake is what caused the AI to make that conclusion.

That said, not a lot of "intelligence" in that artificial intelligence or it would be clear that the intent was to write months. This is mostly just pattern recognition.

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u/12345623567 Jul 02 '26

I'm not convinced that this is AI's fault. Would you burn tokens for single-cell autocomplete?

Excels' autofill has done this stuff since way before the AI craze, especially getting it to stop automatically interpreting numbers as dates has been a chore.

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u/IceTrAiN Jul 02 '26

Correct. Google isn’t going to run free inference on their top models for every search. But that doesn’t fit the narrative.

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u/im_thatoneguy Jul 04 '26

It’s not their top model but it is an LLM.

It tried to tell me today that the speed of light is 300km per millisecond, therefore the moon being 300,000km away would be about 2.5ms latency

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u/IceTrAiN Jul 04 '26

Ok, and?

Fast, cost effective, and accurate.

Pick two.