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An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You have no idea what you're talking about and are making all of this up.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    You realize there are many, many cases where an LLM just abysmally fails at basic math questions, right? The obvious ones that get news attention are corrected rather quickly, but there are plenty of times they just plainly fail at basic “math as word problem” situations.

    If they can’t “understand” basic math reliably, why would they be able to “understand” complex concepts any more reliably?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There's thousands of cases of humans failing at simple math, why would they be able to understand complex math problems?

    Yet they again and again do solve complex math problems...

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