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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

from what i understand, the big change in chat-gpt4 was that the model could “ask for help” from other tools: for maths, it knew it was a maths problem, transformed it to something a specialised calculation app could do, and then passed it off to that other code to do the actual calculation

same thing for a lot of its new features; it was asking specialised software to do the bits it wasn’t good at

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chat GPT will just become a front end for Wolfram Alpha?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

that would actually be great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It literally can do that, yes. But the plug-in version is separate and requires a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And those plugins are like beta release quality at best. Even the web searching capability is just meh