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By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal
By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal
The artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has shaken educators since its November release. New York City public schools have banned it from their networks and school devices, and professors are revamping syllabi to prevent students from using it to complete homework. The chatbot’s creator, OpenAI, unveiled a tool to detect text generated by artificial intelligence to prevent abuse.
There is, perhaps surprisingly, one subject area that doesn’t seem threatened. It turns out ChatGPT is quite bad at math. ‘Tm not hearing math instructors express concern about it,” said Paul von Hippel, a professor at the University of Texas who studies data science and statistics and has written an essay about ChatGPT’s mathematical limitations. ‘Tm not sure it’s useful for math at all, which feels strange because mathematics was the first-use case for computing devices.”
“In the real world, since computers came along, have math, science and engineering gotten conceptually simpler? No, completely the opposite. We’re asking harder and harder questions,” Mr. Wolfram said. In general, however, AI will likely ultimately be most useful for those who already know a field well: They know the questions to ask, how to identify the shortcomings and what to do with the answer. A tool, in other words, for those who know the most math, not the least.
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