Perhaps somewhat tangental, but your breakdown of how LLMs use code to bypass their math deficiency reminded me of the concept of Core Math. As a non-parent, I had never heard of this before, but apparently school teach math a completely different way than it used to when I was a kid.
In this new way, math is taught by breaking problems down into easier steps instead of 'remembering' long formulas.
In a roundabout way, this might prepare today's kids to better understand how AI tools like chatgpt etc. handle the math questions in the middle of pure LLM back & forth, as that's pretty much exactly what they do. You present a problem (in human language), LLM understands it, then breaks the math down into actionable chunks and creates simple code to solve it step by step, then responds using LLM.
Quite fun that kids & LLMs are learning the same approach, even though that wasn't really planned!
Great post, Ravi.
Perhaps somewhat tangental, but your breakdown of how LLMs use code to bypass their math deficiency reminded me of the concept of Core Math. As a non-parent, I had never heard of this before, but apparently school teach math a completely different way than it used to when I was a kid.
In this new way, math is taught by breaking problems down into easier steps instead of 'remembering' long formulas.
In a roundabout way, this might prepare today's kids to better understand how AI tools like chatgpt etc. handle the math questions in the middle of pure LLM back & forth, as that's pretty much exactly what they do. You present a problem (in human language), LLM understands it, then breaks the math down into actionable chunks and creates simple code to solve it step by step, then responds using LLM.
Quite fun that kids & LLMs are learning the same approach, even though that wasn't really planned!