Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by bongodongobob on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:44PM
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It's not an LLM. You're simply asking too much of it. It doesn't work the way you want it to, sorry.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by edflsafoiewq on Monday December 23, 2024 @06:39PM
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Correct, so it isn't a "ChatGPT of Math", which was the point.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by CamperBob2 on Monday December 23, 2024 @05:56PM
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Tell Wolfram. They're the ones who've been advertising it for years, well before LLMs were a thing, using English-language prompts like these examples: https://www.pcmag.com/news/23-cool-non-math-things-you-can-d...
The problem has always been that you only get good answers if you happen to stumble on a specific question that it can handle. Combining Alpha with an LLM could actually be pretty awesome, but I'm sure it's easier said than done.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by Sharlin on Monday December 23, 2024 @06:11PM
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Before LLMs exploded nobody really expected WA to perform well at natural language comprehension. The expectations were at the level of "an ELIZA that knows math".
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by kortilla on Monday December 23, 2024 @08:37PM
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No, “holding it wrong” is the sarcastic version. “You’re using it wrong” is a super common way to tell people they are literally using something wrong.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by CamperBob2 on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:31PM
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But they're not using it wrong. They are using it as advertised by Wolfram themselves (read: himself).
The GP's rocket equation question is exactly the sort of use case for which Alpha has been touted for years.
It dates back to Steve Jobs blaming an iPhone 4 user for "holding it wrong" rather than acknowledging a flawed antenna design that was causing dropped calls. The closest Apple ever came to admitting that it was their problem was when they subsequently ran an employment ad to hire a new antenna engineering lead. Maybe it's time for Wolfram to hire a new language-model lead.