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> Seriously. GPT doing math is like using a 737 to drive around on the ground, or if you had the phone number of a prominent astrophysicist and you call him to
by Closi 3y ago
> Seriously. GPT doing math is like using a 737 to drive around on the ground, or if you had the phone number of a prominent astrophysicist and you call him to do long division for you. Wtf is the point. We have computer things to do every math problem. It’s a waste of energy to use LLMs for it in my opinion.
Using GPT to do maths is probably like using a 737 to drive around on the ground.
Teaching GPT to do maths might be like teaching a child the times tables - a skill that can help overall reasoning.
- marci 3y agoApparently, models finetuned for coding are better at logical inquiries than those that are not.
- viraptor 3y agoWell that's... a claim. What's your reasoning for operations on digits within the model itself improving any current metrics?
- Closi 3y agoWell I didn't really make a bold claim, I said "might", but presumably there is a reason why we teach kids basic mental maths before we teach them how to use a calculator. Humans are different to an AI, but putting that aside, my intuition would be that if we never taught kids any mental maths, their concept/understanding of numbers would be fundamentally different to how it is if they learn that 9 x 9 = 81 (also look at how your fingers move - there is a relationship there!). But who knows, AI is strange and there's lots of stuff that needs to be experimented with. I would think training an intuitive sense of numbers would have other fall-outs though. This is half the beauty of LLM's right? You show an LLM some history books and it also learns about biology, politics, grammar, etymology and love. You teach a LLM maths and it also learns ... ?