4 ms·
See, this is a case where they went for the bombastic headline and in the process hid away a really cool achievement. So basically they created some sort of ge
by e_joules 4y ago
See, this is a case where they went for the bombastic headline and in the process hid away a really cool achievement.
So basically they created some sort of general purpose math library, that can automatically detect the type of problem, find the correct library to solve it, and input the right inputs to get the right output. That is all very impressive and would be a great product actually, if refined.
No need for the bullshit headline.
- radford-neal 4y agoYes, it could be useful, if seen as a natural language front-end to a symbolic math package.
- buescher 4y agoThat's been done - Wolfram Alpha.
- JadeNB 4y agoThe fact that it's been done is no reason not to do it again. Even if two implementations were somehow a bad thing, Wolfram Alpha is the closedest of closed source, and replacing it with something auditable is a win for science.
- buescher 4y agoSure, but nobody in academia is going to get anywhere describing their work as writing a replacement for Excel, right?
- JadeNB 4y agoI'm certain that, if someone came up with a workable replacement for Excel, then it would have a market in academia. (Would it earn the creator promotions? I think clickbait-y titles are more likely, not less, to get promotions.) I base this largely on the success of TeX in the hard sciences, which, by and large, won't touch Word unless absolutely forced to do so. (At least, that's how it is in math.) This is rather ahistorical, since TeX actually predates Word, but I still believe it.
- riku_iki 4y ago> So basically they created some sort of general purpose math library, that can automatically detect the type of problem they likely trained language model on bunch of stack overflow questions or something similar.