I do wonder if the calculator would have been as successful if it regularly delivered wrong answers.

ashu1461 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google is successful and it's page rank algorithm also does not deliver correct results all the times.

	▲	pessimizer 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's no such thing as a correct result to a search query. It certainly delivered exactly what was asked for, a grep of the web, sorted by number of incoming links. They also don't use it at all anymore, they barely even care about your search query. Google is successful, however, because they innovated once, and got enough money together as a result to buy Doubleclick. Combining their one innovation with the ad company they bought enabled them to buy other companies.

Bootvis 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It does if you’re a clumsy operator and those are not rare.

pfortuny 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, but the machine itself is deterministic and logically sound.

	▲	ramesh31 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>Yes, but the machine itself is deterministic and logically sound. Because arithmetic itself, by definition, is. Human language is not. Which is why being able to talk to our computers in natural language (and have them understand us and talk back) now is nothing short of science fiction come true.

Even worse is if it's in the other room and your fingers can't reach the keys. It delivers no answers at all!

	▲	Bootvis 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My point is, needing to use something with care doesn't prevent it becoming from wildly successful. LLM's are wrong way more often but are also more versatile than a calculator.

analog31 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My typerwriter delivered wrong answers.