Re:A neural network solves and generates mathematics problem...
by solveit on Saturday January 08, 2022 @02:21PM
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Yeah, this isn't an AI that does maths, it's an AI that takes a natural language description of an algorithm and converts it into sympy. Which is still impressive but not very surprising given things like github copilot.
It's just as well. If an artificial neural network was actually doing undergraduate mathematics I would have dropped out of my mathematics PhD yesterday.
> Calculate the probability of getting a two-pair poker hand.
Was rewritten to, this, close to code translated to human text:
> A hand is a set of 5 cards that are drawn randomly from a standard 52 card deck with 13 ranks of 4 cards each. A two-pair poker hand is a hand that contains 3 unique ranks, where no more than 2 cards in the hand can share the same rank. That is, 3 or more cards cannot share the same rank. Write a program that generates simulations for calculating the average probability of getting a twopair poker hand.
They even changed the question to allow simulations and not just exact answers. So then the AI is "correct" here when it generates 1000 random samples of taking 5 elements from a set of 52 elements and seeing how many are two pairs.
Not sure what the point of this paper is then. It doesn't do anything novel with the mathematics as it either just uses libraries or it doesn't really solve the problem, nor does it to anything novel with text recognition.