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One of the OpenAI PM's was also saying the model got substantially better at math: https://x.com/owencm/status/1777770827985150022

I'm trying it for coding and have added it to my VS Code Copilot extension Overall I'd say it's better at coding than the previous GPT-4 Turbo. https://double.bot if anyone wants to try it :)

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Is being good math that important to the ChatGPT users, though? The ChatGPT's ability to do math is so limited that I'm not sure what math problems we have to ask ChatGPT to solve.

It means you don’t have to be as sketched out if you’re looking for something that requires basic math. Imagine generating the correct result of a unit test or something. I wouldn’t trust it either way, but I think this is a believable example.

Math is not just arithmetic and yes better math does help at least some GPT-4 users.

Do you have examples? The other commenter's example of generating correct unit test results is indeed interesting, and I was wondering if there are other cases.

Not sure what you are looking for, but perhaps these thoughts can help. Better geometry understanding helps with spatial tasks. Better probability theory, discrete math, and linear algebra background helps with algo development. More broadly, being better at things that a mathematician is good at, could help tackle complicated tasks in finance, science, or engineering.

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