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.

  • ExperimentalGuy
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    3 months ago

    I kind of want to see something on this because my past experiences with ChatGPT is that it was horrible at math, but I used it again the other week for some insight on some math, and it worked it out completely correctly. I don’t know anymore, is it shit at math, is it good at math or in between?

    • mearce
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      3 months ago

      Its generally pretty good. It is able to walk through and explain its steps very well. The main problem with math is sometimes it will just do something that makes no sense. You basically have to redo it by hand to make sure it got the correct answer. But it gets it right significantly more often than not for anything Ive thrown at it recently, and so its still useful even it requires you to check its work. In the past, though, it was a complete waste of time to ask it to any math.