No it’s like having a calculator which is unable to perform simple arithmetic, but lots of people think it is amazing and sentient and want to talk about that instead of why it can’t add 2 + 2.
We know why it's not going to do precise math and why you can have better experience asking for an app solving the math problem you want. There's no point talking about it - it's documented in many places for people who are actually interested.
Well I think it is interesting as an illustration of what it is actually doing - generating words based on the corpus, and what it is not doing - reasoning based on an internal world model or system of logic or mathematics.
People tend to forget and this is a useful reminder.
So if you target ‘complex systems engineering’ with such a model you will inevitably fail unless the work you’re doing is in the training data, in which case you’ll get a bad copy of it.
