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Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen. (gizmodo.com)
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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, set a timer for 60 seconds.

ChatGPT analyzes text

You want a timer for 600 seconds, got it!

Sets timer for 600 seconds with api.

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

It'll actually misinterpret "seconds" as the number 2 instead and then start a timer lengthed 60*2 which is of course 150!