Microsoft announces new Chief Accuracy Officer, Jack Handey
Mr. Handey has released a statement:
Instead of having “answers” on a math test, they should just call them “impressions,” and if you got a different “impression,” so what, can’t we all be brothers?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oh no, I remember that well. I was in high school 👴
glog78@digitalcourage.social 2 weeks ago
@dual_sport_dork @silence7 good times
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If only that recall had actually bankrupted the company. I wonder where we would be today…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
But we can’t bankrupt Microsoft. Bill Gates can jump over a chair.❤️
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hah! That was my first thought, too, when I saw the headline.
loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
I remember too, buddy. It’s important to never forget.