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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...::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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). https://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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

There's an official Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT now, so all math can be handed over to it for solving.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.