xott t1_j9mkfhv wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:20 AM

Reply to comment by RiotNrrd2001 in Stephen Wolfram on Chat GPT by cancolak

The addition of a calculator seems so simple and straightforward that I'm amazed there's no calculation subroutine present.

helliun t1_j9ombm7 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:55 PM

Toolformer can do this

CommunismDoesntWork t1_j9ngi4q wrote on February 23, 2023 at 5:43 AM

It's simple but not interesting from a research perspective. Humans don't need calculators to do math after all. Someone has done it though. They posted about it on the machine learning subreddit a few days ago

xott t1_j9nj194 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 6:10 AM

Integrating different modules into large language models is extremely interesting from both a research and a usability perspective.

Whether or not people need calculators to find square roots, it's still a useful function to have access to

MajesticIngenuity32 t1_j9oft1c wrote on February 23, 2023 at 12:59 PM

There's still a good reason for which we make 8 year-olds memorize multiplication tables instead of just letting them deduce the answer from the definition of multiplication.