[xwolfi]

You're missing the point: who's using the 'add' instruction ? You. We want 'something' to think about using the 'add' instruction to solve a problem.

We want to remove the human from the solution design. It would help us tremendously tbh, just like I don't know, Google map helped me never to have to look for direction ever again ?

[marshray]

When the solution requires arithmetic, one trick is to simply ask GPT to write a Python program to compute the answer.

There's your 'add'.

[vidarh]

GPT4 now does this by default. You'll see a "analyzing" step before you get the answer, and a link which will show the generated python.

[davidwritesbugs]

Interesting, how do you use this idea? If you prompt the LLM "create a python Add function Foo to add a number to another number", "using Foo add 1 and 2", or somesuch, but what's to stop it hallucinating and saying "Sure, let me do that for you, foo 1 and 2 is 347. Please let me know if you need anything else."

[IanCal]

Nothing stops it from writing a recipe for soup for every request, but it does tend to do what it's told. When asked to do mathsy things and told it's got a tool for doing those it tends to lean into that if it's a good llm.

[kolinko]

It writes a function and then you provide it to an interpreter which does the calculation output on which gpt proceeds to do the rest.

That’s how langchain works, chatgpt plugins and gpt function calling. It has proven to be pretty robust - that is, gpt4 realising when it needs to use a tool/write code for calculations when needed and then using the output.

[vidarh]

With ChatGPT you now just state your problem, and if it looks like math, it will do so. E.g. see this transcript:

https://chat.openai.com/c/dd8de3f7-a50c-4b6d-bd3f-b52ed996d3...

[LASR]

We’re way beyond this kind of hallucinations now. OpenAI’s models are frighteningly good at producing code.

You can even route back runtime errors and ask it to fix its own code. And it does.

It can write code and even write a test to test that code. Give it an interpreter and you’re all set.