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Algebra is by definition a language, and a very simple one at that that whose rules can be summarized in a few pages [1]. That's exactly the domain that ChatGP
by danans 4y ago
Algebra is by definition a language, and a very simple one at that that whose rules can be summarized in a few pages [1]. That's exactly the domain that ChatGPT excels at the most: languages for which tons of examples are available. Just like programming languages.
It falls on its face with things that involve non-linguistic facts that require knowledge to answer, my current favorite being driving directions. It will just make up completely fictitious roads and turns if you ask it for directions for point A to point B.
1. http://faculty.ung.edu/mgoodroe/PriorCourses/Math_0999_General/The%20Formal%20Rules%20of%20Algebra.pdf http://faculty.ung.edu/mgoodroe/PriorCourses/Math_0999_Gener...
- scarface74 4y agoAgain, how is that different from humans? You throw me in a random city I won’t be able to give you directions. But that’s an easy problem to solve from a technology standpoint. If ChatGPT recognizes the same types of domains that dumb assistants can do, delegate the answer to an API.
- danans 4y ago> If ChatGPT recognizes the same types of domains that dumb assistants can do, delegate the answer to an API This is backward from an architectural standpoint. LLMs are a very expensive way to do intent detection, and a very inexact way to delegate to an API. The more sensible way is to first try the standard search engine approaches to detecting intent (which often use smaller language models) and delegating to knowledge based services, and if that doesn't return good result, delegate to the LLM if the task is suited to that.