Hey, I tried to use GPT4 to summarize some of the numbers I collected. Unfortunately, parts of the answer are wrong. GPT seems to think 7,735 is greater than 7,926, and 12,888,221 is greater than 14,289,259. Any tips on additional prompt settings I can use to make sure it doesn’t make this type of m…

Hey champ! And welcome to the community forum! Use a calculator or ask it to write some code for you to sove the problem, chatGPT isn’t great at math :laughing: If you’re interested I’ve written about it in more detail in this thread: [image] Physics and Mathematics as an ai too…

Thanks! Much appreciated :slight_smile:

Occasionally, it may still make math errors because it is a text model that does not know math – it only creates the illusion that it can do math well. Additionally, its behavior is probabilistic. As I recall, for a limited number of users, there is a Wolfram|Alpha plugin for ChatGPT, which will de…

I think spelling out the procedure might help. I tried this, in which I forgot to do something smart after removing the leading minus sign, and yet this still seems to work for negative numbers: First I’ll describe how to tell if one number is larger than another; then I’ll give you some pairs of n…

Would you mind trying to remove commas from numbers and see the results? I don’t know if that would be helpful, but it might be.

GPT4 math problem (says 7,735 is greater than 7,926)

Prompting

N2U April 12, 2023, 12:53pm 2

Hey champ!
And welcome to the community forum!
Use a calculator or ask it to write some code for you to sove the problem, chatGPT isn’t great at math

If you’re interested I’ve written about it in more detail in this thread:

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GPT4 math problem (says 7,735 is greater than 7,926)

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