Salary comparison of japan in 2020, Copilot VS Chatgpt

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Nomatter what I do, Copilot just won't give a correct answer lol. 
Chatgpt at least gave a somewhat reasonable output. Why is copilot this stupid? or am I missing something?
Apparently Japanese people are insanely rich!

Context: 260.000 DKK = 37.777 $ USD & 3.124.000 DKK = 453.911 $ USD

[Eigenvektor]

As far as ChatGPT and Copilot are concerned, it comes down to which dataset they were trained on and whether it contained any useful information in that regard to begin with. These tools don't do research when you ask a question like this.

 

The best you can hope for is a somewhat accurate summary of the data that was used to train these LLMs. Oversimplifying a bit, LLMs are statistical models that pick the most likely words based on your prompt. There is zero guarantee that this results in factually correct information.

 

That said, a direct conversion between the salary of one country to another country's currency isn't particularly useful to begin with. You need to take the cost of living in that country into account. It may seem like the salary is high, but if the cost of living is equally high or even higher your average Japanese citizen might actually have less disposable income than a citizen from Denmark, despite the numbers being higher.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

On 4/6/2024 at 6:16 PM, Eigenvektor said:

As far as ChatGPT and Copilot are concerned, it comes down to which dataset they were trained on and whether it contained any useful information in that regard to begin with. These tools don't do research when you ask a question like this.

 

The best you can hope for is a somewhat accurate summary of the data that was used to train these LLMs. Oversimplifying a bit, LLMs are statistical models that pick the most likely words based on your prompt. There is zero guarantee that this results in factually correct information.

 

That said, a direct conversion between the salary of one country to another country's currency isn't particularly useful to begin with. You need to take the cost of living in that country into account. It may seem like the salary is high, but if the cost of living is equally high or even higher your average Japanese citizen might actually have less disposable income than a citizen from Denmark, despite the numbers being higher.

I completely agree, but that 's all beside the point. 
The error doesn't stem from the data regarding salary.

The error is in the conversion. Copilot is apparently making mistakes in conversion.
Average monthly salary it finds to be 318.300 YEN ~ 14.400 DKK ~2100 $USD (correct conversion)

But Copilot calculates as follows and somehow comes up with 1.398.052 DKK (about 203k $USD) / Month ! Astronomical monthly salary.

 

As far as I can see, it's because it's using 1 JPY = 0.66 USD, while it's actually 1 JPY = 0.066 USD

Which also makes the salary 100 times smaller, and much more realistic.