I'm definitely not on the LLM bandwagon. While I do think they're interesting, I have significant doubts that they'll be much more than a curiosity to laymen a

I'm definitely not on the LLM bandwagon. While I do think they're interesting, I have significant doubts that they'll be much more than a curiosity to laymen and just one more tool in the box for experts. However, I'm not sure why being bad at math (if even true based on other comments here), is a legitimate criticism. We've already got a lot of machinery that is very good at math. So, use the tools that make sense for the domain. Or (what I'm really waiting for) better yet find novel ways to stitch the tools that we do have together. Can LLMs turn a problem statement into a matlab program? If so then it doesn't really matter how bad at math they are.