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by scythe 1293 days ago
Not just that, but the very first example in the thread being used to demonstrate the capabilities of GPT-3 is in fact wrong, or at least way off-topic, and omitted valuable information that Google succinctly includes.

Specifically, GPT-3 tells the asker to use an align* environment to write a differential equation, but this is not usually necessary, and the presence of the * makes it unnumbered, which may not be desirable and anyway isn't made clear. Google included, and GPT-3 omitted, the use of the \partial symbol for a partial differential equation, which while not always necessary, is definitely something I reach for more often than alignment. Furthermore, the statement "This will produce the following output:" should obviously be followed by an image or PDF or something, although that formatting may not be available; it certainly should not be followed by the same source code!

And personally, I usually find that reading a shorter explanation costs less of my mental energy.