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Re:Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board a... by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:48PM (#38389025)
> because it requires a conceptual understanding of the ideas rather than just being about manipulating language

Yes, that's exactly the point I was trying to make. I just used the example of "complex word problems with big numbers" to differentiate from just normal mathematical statements that any programming language (i.e. deterministic algorithm) can execute.

Re:Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board a... by xanderlewis on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:39AM (#38393215)
It wasn’t my intention to give a snarky correction; I just wanted to emphasise that most of what mathematicians call mathematics has very little to do with numbers (as we would usually understand them). Talking about ‘word problems’ and ‘big numbers’ gives the wrong idea about what current LLMs struggle with. Even if they do struggle with these, it is still not sufficient when it gains the ability to be able to say that it can now do mathematics.