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by jillesvangurp 1171 days ago
People aren't that good at logic either. So, gpt-4 not being great at this is maybe not that surprising.

Probably the best feature of gpt-4 is the ability to use tools. For example, it may not be that good at calculating things. But it can use a calculator. And if you think about it, a lot of people (including mathematicians) aren't actually that good at calculating either. We all learn it in school and then we forget much of it. That's why we have calculators. It's not a big deal.

Gpt-4 is more than capable of knowing the best tool for the job. Figuring out how to use it isn't that hard. You can actually ask it "what's the best tool for X", get a usable response, and then ask a follow up question to produce a script in the language of your choosing that demonstrates how to use it, complete with unit tests. Not a hypothetical, I've been doing that in the past few weeks and I've been getting some usable results.

And that's put me in a mind of wondering what will happen once we start networking all these specialized AIs and tools together. It might not be able to do everything by itself but it can get quite far figuring out requirements and turning those into running code. It's not that big of a leap from answering questions about how to do things to actually building programs that do things.