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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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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It could simply save a timestamp of the "begin timer" message and compare it to the timestamp of the "end" message. It's not that complicated, and writing a script and executing it is overkill... It just needs access to a calculator skill.

Yes, it handles it better, but it's still a dumb approach and waste of energy.

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aren’t we saying exactly the same? Give it an MCP server or a native skill that CAN track time.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well, yes. I'm just responding to the anthropic doing it better part, yes but not by much.

'const timePassed = (start, end) => end - start;' is much simpler than creating a whole timer.