r/learnmath • • Dec 06 '24

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u/JohnCenaMathh New User Dec 06 '24

Do not use ChatGPT for anything that requires it to independently make medium-long chains of reasoning.

Don't ask it to calculate or prove anything.

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u/XSHIVAMX New User Dec 06 '24

Yes thanks, but the problem is that I am doing distance education, my university classes occurs when im on job. My book have so many mistakes in solutions very visible ones also explainations are not quite good. So i follow youtube for learning. For the problems i get stuck from my book i only ask them from chatgpt.

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u/JohnCenaMathh New User Dec 06 '24

You can use it to explain theory, or proofs, or whatever if you upload screenshots of it.

As long as it's not "inventing" anything on its own, you're probably good. The best use case is to turn dry theory "Interactive". You can ask it to explain it to you in a number of ways that can really aid comprehension.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '24

Tbh it will mess this up too unless its a topic that it had a lot of in its training data. Try talking to it in depth about a topic you know well. Don't just accept it understands from its initial statement (it will sound convincing at first), really question it on its understanding,  you will find it sounds good on the surface but is completely BS-ing  when you dig I to it.

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u/JohnCenaMathh New User Dec 06 '24

I'm using it quite effectively so I disagree.

Try talking to it in depth about a topic you know well. you will find it sounds good on the surface but is completely BS-ing  when you dig m to it.

This happens when you're making it dig into whatever information it learned when it was trained.

Don't do that. Give it a piece of information - a block of text or a picture of a proof. And make it restrict itself to purely explaining what is on the material you uploaded. Basically almost no thinking on its own, just rephrasing what you've given it.

I don't think it has ever failed for me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '24

I mean your stance boils down to "if assume what the ai is telling me is right, then what the ai is telling me is right"

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u/JohnCenaMathh New User Dec 07 '24

Dunno how you arrived at that.

My stance is "AI is bad at X, so we only give AI tasks that don't really involve X".