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> Of course people who actually know how ChatGPT works don't expect it to be able to magically solve mathematical problems There is a causality inversion here.
by rain1 4y ago
> Of course people who actually know how ChatGPT works don't expect it to be able to magically solve mathematical problems
There is a causality inversion here.
The only reason people know it can't do this is because they have tried and seen it cannot do this.
We do not have very precise bounds a-priori what GPT can and cannot do. We only learn them from black box testing.
- freehorse 4y agoThis is not completely true, though. We expected GPT and LLMs in general to be bad in tasks that are not language-focused, exactly because they are large LANGUAGE models. Mathematics is one of them. Though it is also true that one may not have expected that GPT would be so bad as it is in extrapolating, nobody should have expected it to any good in any involved mathematical argumentation.