AI is 'good' at writing poetry but struggles with math

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Recently, some technology experts realized that AI chatbots sometimes have difficulty with simple arithmetic and math problems that require many steps to find the result, according to the New York Times .

Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT can write poems, summarize books, and answer questions as fluently as humans. These AI systems can also do math, but they can get the answers wrong because they base their results on probabilities rather than rule-based calculations.

"AI chatbots have trouble with math because they were never designed to do math," said Kristian Hammond, an AI researcher at Northwestern University.

In addition, according to Mr. Kirk Schneider - a high school math teacher in New York state (USA), AI chatbots are usually fine but not good enough for math because "math must be precise and correct".

Schneider has had his class discuss whether the AI’s results are true or false and what students found. “That helps kids practice critical thinking,” Schneider said. “Don’t believe everything an AI program tells you.”

AI is improving, but it still has its shortcomings. AI chatbots like ChatGPT have solutions to difficult problems, thanks to the help of a specialized computational program.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/ai-gioi-lam-tho-nhung-gap-kho-voi-toan-20240728222335457.htm