Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from accurately answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

  • Matt Shatt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The masses of people there who never learned PEMDAS (or BEDMAS depending on your region) is depressing.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty much all of those rely on the fact that PEMDAS is ambiguous with actual usage. The reason why is it doesn’t differentiate between explicit multiplication and implicit multiplication by placement. E.G. in actual usage “a*b” and “ab” are treated with two different precedence. Most of the time it doesn’t matter but when you introduce division it does. “a*b/c*d” and “ab/cd” are generally treated very differently in practice, while PEMDAS says they’re equivalent.