L4sBotJul 20, 2023

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi...

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Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi... - Lemmy.world

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi…::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

Show threadRufusLoackerJul 20, 2023
Why are people using a language model for math problems?
Show threadFixbeatJul 20, 2023
Because it works, or at least it used to. Is there something more appropriate ?
Show threadbassomitron

I used Wolfram Alpha a lot in college (adult learner, but that was about ~4 years ago that I graduated, so no idea if it’s still good). www.wolframalpha.com

I would say that Wolfram appears to probably be a much more versatile math tool, but I also never used chatgpt for that use case, so I could be wrong.

p=280,n=4,h=0.725,S=300,R=5/3, a/b=1, a+b=S, (a+c)/(b+d)=h, a+b+c+d+s=n*p, s=0.02(b+d), T=a+b+c+d+s, d=e+f, f=R(b+e) - Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.

Jul 20, 2023 at 1:01pmWeb
Show threadd3Xt3rJul 20, 2023
There’s an official Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT now, so all math can be handed over to it for solving.
Show threadTitanLaGrangeJul 20, 2023

How did you learn to talk to WolframAlpha?

I want to like WA, but the natural language interface is so opaque that I usually give up before I can get any non-trivial calculation out of it.