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Why is ChatGPT so bad at math? (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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You might've noticed that ChatGPT — and AI in general — isn't good at math. There's a reason, and it has to do with how modern AI is built.

Basically, they're autocorrect on steroids. Which some of us have been saying for, like, ages.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

There's zero ability to compute problems. Only statistical word salad. AI is a scam.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

LLMs (I refuse to call them AI, as there's no intelligence to be found) are simply random word sequence generators based on a trained probability model. Of course they're going to suck at math, because they're not actually calculating anything, they're just dumping what their algorithm "thinks" is the most likely response to user input.

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui-Gon Jin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why can't this person working on his linguist degree not able to do high level math? It's not their specialty.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, even someone with a linguist degree knows basic math. GPT can't even get that right. That's the biggest problem (and red flag).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

GPT can’t get basic math right? That hasn’t been my experience whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

It can absolutely do basic math. Give us a ‘basic’ math question that it can’t solve.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Ive heard the chatgpt math problem was fixed in the new one by having it write a python code to complete the math problem and then providing the answer when the code is run.