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well now this is getting interesting beyond gossip. I doubt they made a significant AGI-related breakthrough but it might be something really cool and useful.
Being a layperson in this, I’d imagine part of the promise is that once you’ve got reliable arithmetic, you can get logic and maths in there too and so get the LLM to actually do more computer-y stuff but with the whole LLM/ChatGPT wrapped around it as the interface.
That would mean more functionality, perhaps a lot more of it works and scales, but also, perhaps more control and predictability and logical constraints. I can see how the development would get some excited. It seems like a categorical improvement.
Always wondered why the text model didn't just put its output through something like MATLAB or Mathematica once it got as far as having something which requires domain-specific tools.
Like when Prof. Moriarty tried it on a quantum physics question and it got as far as writing out the correct formula before failing to actually calculate the result
There is definitely a lot of effort in this direction, seems very likely that a hybrid system could be very powerful.
I kinda just realised that the two aspects of this. The LLM part and the basic maths part. Doesn't this look set to destroy thousands of accounting jobs?
Surely this isn't far off doing a lot of the accounting work. Maybe even an app than a small business puts their info into it and that app keeps track of it for a year and then goes to an accountant that needs to look over it for an hour instead of sorting all the shit out for 10 hours
If they had a real breakthrough this circus wouldn't be necessary.
Definitely seems AGI related. Has to do with acing mathematical problems - I can see why a generative AI model that can learn, solve, and then extrapolate mathematical formulae could be a big breakthrough.