A screenshot from ChatGPT showing that it uses Python to do math.

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   Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 02:24:28 JST Matt Hodges

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   @evan

   Yes, and...!

   > It's not very good at simple arithmetic.

   This is a recurrent example that is starting to illustrate the difference between bare LLMs and the products built on top of them. Eg, ChatGPT is a product built on top of a system. That system has a lot of components. One of those components is a LLM. And another component is a Python interpreter. LLMs can write Python quite well, and Python can do math quite well.

   Seems like a pretty intelligent system to me!