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What led you to beleive that mathematics is a good tool for evaluating an LLM? It is a thing they currently dont do well, since it is wildly out of domain of their training corpus - down the very way we structure information for an LLM to ingest. If we start doing the same for humans, most humans are in deep trouble.


Well I am studying mathematics, and I use the LLM to help me learn.

They aren't terrible, and they have all of arXiv to train on. Terrence Tao is doing some cool stuff with it - the idea will be an LLM to generate Lean proofs.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/ai-for-math-fund/

(Professor Tao is probably the best or at least most productive in the most fields current mathematician).


And I can assure you when I start to talk about these topics with the average human person that doesn't know the material, they just laugh at me. Even my wife who has a PhD in physics.

Here's some cool math I learned from a regular book, not an LLM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khinchin%27s_constant




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