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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi...::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

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[–] RufusLoacker@feddit.it 89 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Why are people using a language model for math problems?

[–] nani8ot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I did use it more than half a year ago for a few math problems. It was partly to help me getting started and to find out how well it'd go.

ChatGPT was better than I'd thought and was enough to help me find an actually correct solution. But I also noticed that the results got worse and worse to the point of being actual garbage (as it'd have been expected to be).

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