Oh no, I remember that well. I was in high school 👴
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is totally expected and also absolutely peanuts compared to Intel, who once released a processor that managed to perform floating point long division incorrectly in fascinating (if you’re the right type of nerd) and subtle ways. Hands up everyone who remembers that debacle!
Nobody? Just me?
Anyway, I totally had — and probably still have, somewhere — one of the affected chips. You could check if yours was one of the flawed ones literally by using the Windows calculator.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
glog78@digitalcourage.social 2 months ago
@dual_sport_dork @silence7 good times
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If only that recall had actually bankrupted the company. I wonder where we would be today…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
But we can’t bankrupt Microsoft. Bill Gates can jump over a chair.❤️
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The floating point bug we are talking about was in Intel Pentium processors.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I remember correctly the Intel floating point thing didn’t come up for most users like AI does.
thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Does AI comes up negative for most users? Surely here in Lemmy, yes. But out there I see/hear people using it -for dumb shit, mind you- all the time and being happy about it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A lot of people are fine with getting wrong answers about shit they don’t know already.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is only one study, but I saw an article a few months ago talking about a study by a major phone company that found that the vast majority of people (80% or more IIRC) either didn’t care about AI features on their phones or actively disliked them.
I think most people don’t really care one way or another but hate that it’s being shoved into everything, and those who know the stats on how often it’s wrong are a lot more likely to actively dislike it and be vocal about their dislike.
thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That sounds quite possible, AI features on phones/OSs go mostly unused –according to my study, which has a sample of size who the hell knows and a methodology of I feel–.
But llms I think, although burning money, are quite accepted by the people who touch them, and do not understand what is actually going on or don’t care if the thing is wrong often.
I sometimes use llms, but only to burn to monkey work that I can fast and easily review and do if the result is too shity. But that is the extention of my ai use.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hah! That was my first thought, too, when I saw the headline.
loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I remember having to compensate for the Pentium float bug in the Turbo Pascal programs I was writing back then. I really didn’t understand what I was doing at the time, and the 90s version of StackOverflow (A Tripod blog?) wasn’t that enlightening…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember too, buddy. It’s important to never forget.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 2 months ago
Making a few digits worth of wrong division way down in the not very significant bits of the answer, is way better than encouraging all your users to use an LLM to generate the answers for their quarterly reports / tax forms / do we have enough food for the winter calculations. The Pentium division fuckup was barely worth fixing unless you were doing some kind of numerical analysis or simulation or something, which is why it slipped past all the testing initially. This is astronomically worse of a fuck-up.
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They even say not to use it for financial calculations or high stakes scenarios. They can’t provide an example of using it in any way that is useful for getting actual work done. It’s a solution in search of a problem.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah, and I'm only supposed to use this bong for smoking tobacco. It said so very very clearly when I bought it so you know they mean it.