and they all have 80,000 followers
@philip_AI
a link to a tweet where a guy, whose handle seriously does end with "AI", posted the following now-deleted tweet
This is amazing. Google's BARD can convert any equation into LaTeX. You just need to attach a screenshot.
there was of course a screenshot attached, where someone provided an image and bard responded with latex.
there were several problems with this.
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the provided latex did not actually render into the original equation.
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which meant the guy did not bother to check whether the provided latex rendered into the original equation, before tweeting how amazing it was. he has 60k followers.
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as mentioned in the replies to this tweet, there is already regular software that can actually do this anyway.
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bard's response included an explanation of the latex it produced, including mention of "the coefficients in the linear regression model". which is funny since the prompt didn't mention that at all; it was just "convert this formula into latex" and a png. hmm.
so what i think happened is that bard recognized the image as being of a stock formula, and then spat out some latex for that stock formula — but the precise formulation happened to be a little different. which means not only did it not correctly do the thing being claimed, but it didn't even attempt to do the thing being claimed.
the sheer amount of grift is exhausting. it really is NFTs again, even down to burning through gpus to make it work, except every tech giant bought in for some reason
