IDK, cobol programmers still do well these days
zbyte64
joined 2 years ago
Right on time for the markets to close
Why is Xavier Becerra on the list? The Democratic governor front runner for California?
The description that the LLM did it on its own is subjective at best. I'll just leave it at that. Have a good one
It's not "bested" by the LLM though, a mathematician used the LLM as a tool to disprove a conjecture. Subtract the mathematicians from the process and the LLM would not have successfully completed the task. It would be more accurate to say a mathematician with an LLM was able to best a mathematician who did not have an LLM. Which is cool, but we don't need to pretend the LLM is not a tool but something that "understands" math like a mathematician
You are the one collapsing tool use into a binary when there are varying degrees of competency and hand holding.
So why are you allergic to people talking about the quality of the tools in regards to capability?
How are you able to understand it's capability without understanding what tools it is capable of manipulating to effect?
If you are not interested in how it completes the task then you are not an authority on how it works.
It's relevant to what the parent was saying about LLMs. The success of the LLM in using mathematical tools does not contradict what they were saying. To then accuse them of lying because of a misunderstanding is... bad form.
Aren't you the least bit curious what tools they gave the LLM and how the LLM used those tools? It's like back in math class you are asked to solve a quadratic formula but you forgot how. So you use the calculator to try different numbers and the calculator is telling you if you are getting closer. Sure I got the right answer, but it's hardly a testament to my math skills.
"yeah there's a new giant structure and there's a new persistent and pervasive sound in the region that both appeared around the same time, but there's no data connecting the two. It could just be the sound of my own ego"