Mistral-Instruct can't do basic math
It's an amazing LLM but I found another simple way to stump:
Me: If something costs this per second: $0.000725 how many seconds of time do I get for 1 penny?
Mistral-Instruct: To determine the number of seconds you can buy with one penny at a cost of $0.000725 per second, we need to divide the cost by the price per second:
Seconds = Cost / Price per Second
= $0.000725 / $0.000725
≈ 1.000000 seconds
Therefore, you would be able to purchase approximately 1 second of time for one penny at this rate.
Me: to find out how much you get for a penny, you divide a penny by the cost per second.
Mistral: Yes, that is correct! You are right. To find out how long you can buy with one penny at a cost of $0.000725 per second, you would divide one cent (or $0.01) by the cost per second:
Time = $0.01 / $0.000725
≈ 1.386244 seconds
Therefore, you would be able to purchase approximately 1.39 seconds of time for one penny at this rate.
Me: .01 / .000725 = 13.793103
Mistral: I apologize for the error in my previous response. The calculation should have been:
Time = $0.01 / $0.000725
≈ 1.386244 seconds
So, you would be able to purchase approximately 1.39 seconds of time for one penny at this rate. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
This is a normal thing for almost every ai chatbot. the bot has been given tons of precalculated formulas, it doesnt comprehend to be like "oh now i have to calculate this" it just searches similar math examples in its given data (like 10 trillion of those) and gives the output from that data. I hope this helps.