Hi folks! 👋🏻 Are you tired of hearing how amazing AI is at everything from creating art to playing board games better than you?

Well, I got some good news for you: Large Language Models are not that good at math!

Let's see why and how researchers are working on it

Language models are still bad at math

Large language models like GPT3 are very good at generating text, and finishing or rewriting our sentences or code.

Yet, they seem to struggle with math.

The challenge is that large language models (LLMs) are not designed for that purpose.

Current models do not understand the underlying principles of math and are not able to apply that knowledge to solve problems in a flexible way, such as when the problems are presented in different ways.

But with enough "math instruction", models can do better

This paper proved that LLMs (Large Language models) can add up to 19 digits if provided with algorithm details in the prompt itself.

They call it "Algorithmic prompting".It seems like the trick is to describe the algo in enough detail so that there is no room for misinterpretation -- in a similar way to how Stable Diffusion works, but for math!

📚 Educational corner

• Apparently you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT 🤯

• Stable Difussion 2 Demo & API to play with, by Vasil

• Create your own ChatGPT Chrome extension with just a 20-30 lines of code

🛼 Makers corner

• Elon Musk recently took action to prevent OpenAI from using Twitter data in their training, as OpenAI is no longer open-sourced & non-profit.

• Telegram Bot powered by ChatGPT

• Sam Altman from OpenAI asked ChatGPT users on Twitter what they want, and says he's going to implement most of the requested features before Christmas

🤓 Tech & Other news

• Lensa is the newest AI avatars app on the horizon that is going viral

• Disney researchers have developed an AI that can make actors look younger in movies and TV shows in real-time.

• New AI model by DeepMind called DeepNash has mastered the popular boarding game Stratego, which is harder than Chess and Go.

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