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theucm t1_j8mobi7 wrote

Reply to comment by semitope in ChatGPT Passed a Major Medical Exam, but Just Barely | Researchers say ChatGPT is the first AI to receive a passing score for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, but it's still bad at math. by chrisdh79

"Its a little weird for a person to be bad at chemistry."

"Why?"

"Because it's a basic function of living things. "

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semitope t1_j8n9mlm wrote

that's a completely wrong comparison. A person isn't born automatically being able to do math. Computer processors all have Arithmetic logic units.

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theucm t1_j8obg7s wrote

You missed my point, I think.

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I'm saying that expecting a language model to be intrinsically good at math because it runs on a processor with arithmetic logic is like expecting a living thing to be good at chemistry because our brains "run" on chemical and electrical impulses. The language model AI only has the ability to access the knowledge it has been trained on, which apparently didn't include math.

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