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Comment by jampekka

I just spent a few days trying to figure out some linear algebra with the help of ChatGPT. It's very useful for finding conceptual information from literature (which for a not-professional-mathematician at least can be really hard to find and decipher). But in the actual math it constantly makes very silly errors. E.g. indexing a vector beyond its dimension, trying to do matrix decomposition for scalars and insisting on multiplying matrices with mismatching dimensions.

O1 is a lot better at spotting its errors than 4o but it too still makes a lot of really stupid mistakes. It seems to be quite far from producing results itself consistently without at least a somewhat clueful human doing hand-holding.

parent jampekka 1 year ago

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