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by eulerian 601 days ago
Humans’ abilities to solve math problems is independent of language – if you can (or cannot) solve a problem stated in English, and if you understand, say French, you will (or will not) be able to solve the same problem presented to you in French. The blog shows that while GPT-4o can understand base64, its math reasoning does not generalize to base64.