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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers
Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for genuinely new mathematical ideas. The article Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers appeared first on The Decoder .
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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers: Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for genuinely new mathematical ideas. The article Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers appeared first on The Decoder .
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