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In the school year that just ended, a group of students caught the attention for their peculiarity. They are very hard-working, are improving and are very eloquent. But, curiously, these students (chatbots with artificial intelligence) often have problems with mathematics.

Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT can write poetry, summarize books, and answer questions, often with human-like fluency. But when it comes to mathematical calculations, while these systems can do so based on what they’ve learned, the results can vary and be wrong. That’s because they’re designed to determine probabilities, not make rule-based calculations. Probability is not exactness, and language is more flexible and forgiving than math.

“Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have a hard time with math because they were never designed for that,” said Kristian Hammond, a computer science professor and AI researcher at Northwestern University.

It seems that the world’s smartest computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence that is better suited to humanities subjects than to mathematics.

At first glance, this marks a break with computing’s past. Ever since the first computers appeared in the 1940s, a good summary definition of computing has been “mathematics on steroids.” Computers have been tireless, fast, and accurate calculating machines. For a long time, they have been really good at numbers, far surpassing human performance.

Traditionally, computers were programmed to follow step-by-step rules, retrieve information and present it in structured databases. They were powerful but fragile. That’s why previous attempts to produce artificial intelligence failed.

But more than a decade ago, a different strategy emerged that began to yield surprising results. The underlying technology, called a neural network, is based on the human brain.

This type of AI is not programmed with rigid rules, but instead learns from analyzing a large amount of data. It generates language based on all the information it has absorbed and predicts which word or phrase is most likely to come next, just like humans do.

AI chatbots have occasionally struggled with simple arithmetic and math word problems that require multiple steps to arrive at a solution, as recently documented by some tech reviewers. AI’s prowess is improving, but it remains a flaw.

During her presentation at a recent symposium, Kristen DiCerbo, chief learning officer at Khan Academy, a nonprofit education organization that is experimenting with an AI tutor chatbot and teaching assistant, introduced the topic of math accuracy. “It’s a problem, as many of you know,” DiCerbo told educators.

A few months ago, Khan Academy introduced a significant change to its AI-powered tutor, called Khanmigo. It sends many number problems to a calculator program instead of asking the AI ​​to solve the math. While waiting for the calculator program to finish, students see the words “calculating” on their screens and a head-shaking icon of Khanmigo.

“We’re actually using tools that are meant to do computations,” said DiCerbo, who remains optimistic that conversational chatbots will play a major role in education.

For over a year now, ChatGPT has been using a similar solution for some math problems. For tasks such as division and multiplication of large numbers, the chatbot asks a calculator program for help.

Math is an “important and developing area of ​​research,” OpenAI said in a statement, and a field in which scientists have made steady progress. The company added that its new version of GPT achieved nearly 64 percent accuracy on a public database of thousands of problems requiring visual perception and mathematical reasoning. That’s up from 58 percent in the previous version.

AI-powered chatbots tend to excel when they’ve consumed large amounts of relevant training data — textbooks, exercises, and standardized tests. The effect is that the chatbots have already seen and analyzed very similar, if not the same, questions. According to the company, a recent version of the technology behind ChatGPT scored in the 89th percentile on the high school math SAT exam.

The technology’s erratic performance in mathematics contributes to a lively debate in the AI ​​community about how best to move forward in the field. Broadly speaking, there are two camps.

On one side are those who believe that the advanced neural networks that power AI chatbots, known as large language models (LLMs), are almost a singular path to continued progress and, ultimately, to artificial general intelligence (or AGI) — a computer capable of doing everything the human brain can do. That’s the dominant view in much of Silicon Valley.

On the other hand, there are skeptics who question whether simply adding more data and computing power to large language models is enough. Among them is Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta.

According to LeCun, large language models are weak on logic and lack common-sense reasoning, and he insists that what is needed is a broader approach, which he calls “world modeling,” or systems that can learn how the world works in a similar way to how humans do. And it may take a decade to get there.

Meanwhile, Meta decided to incorporate into its social networking services, such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, a software AI-powered intelligent assistant based on its vast language model LLaMA. Current models may be flawed, but they do a lot anyway.

A team of Israeli officials on the latest ceasefire offer, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday agitation Will reach Cairo today to review the response.

According to Reuters, the Israeli official also reiterated that the current proposal from Hamas is unacceptable to Israel.

“This delegation consists of middle-ranking diplomats,” the official told Reuters, referring to officials from the intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet in the Israeli delegation. If there is a credible agreement, the high-level leadership will head the delegation.’

The visit of the Israeli delegation to the Egyptian capital is taking place at a time when Israeli tanks have besieged Rafah bordering Egypt.

Palestinian group Hamas Despite accepting the ceasefire proposal in Gaza on the proposal of Egypt and Qatar Israel Bombed Rafah last night.

The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it had taken operational control of the border crossing to Palestine in Rafah and that its special forces had begun searching the area.

The Israeli army said that its forces have been operating in the designated eastern part of Rafah since Monday night.

According to the army, many people and some international organizations have left the area where the operation is taking place.

The Rafah crossing connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt by land.

Hamas announced on Monday night that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal by Egypt and Qatar in Gaza, but a few hours later, Israel attacked Rafah, killing five people.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Gaza border authority told Reuters news agency on Tuesday that the delivery of aid to Gaza on the border route between the Gaza Strip and Egypt has been stopped after the presence of Israeli tanks on the Palestinian side of the crossing.

Despite Hamas’s acceptance of the ceasefire proposal, the Israeli army asked more than 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate the area before launching a ground attack on Rafah.

A statement issued by the Israeli army on Monday said that the Israeli army has started dropping pamphlets on Palestinians in Rafah.

Reports of Israeli airstrikes and preparations for a ground military operation on Rafah are raising concerns among the international community and aid organizations.

According to Saudi Arabia’s official news agency (SPA), Saudi Arabia has warned Israel of the dangers of targeting the city of Rafah in a “bloody” and “organized campaign”.

In a statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry, it was said that such actions increase the humanitarian crisis and harm international peace efforts.

The ministry renewed the kingdom’s call to the international community to intervene urgently to stop the occupation forces’ genocidal acts against innocent civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

United States US President Joe Biden and King Abdullah II of Jordan have also warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against attacking Rafah.

Joe Biden and King Abdullah II of Jordan met yesterday and discussed the developments.

King Abdullah called on President Biden to intervene, saying the Israeli attack on Rafah ‘threats a new massacre.’

In a statement issued by the White House, it is said that the President has reiterated his clear position regarding Rafah.

“We believe that the current military operation in Rafah will dramatically increase the suffering (and) civilian casualties of the Palestinian people,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.

Even before this, President Biden has repeatedly convinced Netanyahu that the attack on Rafah would be a ‘mistake’, and Secretary of State Anthony Blanken told him in occupied Jerusalem last week that more than 1 million refugees in Rafah There should be no attack due to safety of citizens.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said on Monday that a ground attack on Rafah would be “unbearable”.

“A ground attack in Rafah would be intolerable because of the devastating humanitarian and regionally destabilizing consequences,” he said.

On the other hand, according to the American news agency AP, Israel says that the agreement does not meet its “basic demands” and it Gaza It is moving to attack the southern city of Rafah, but negotiations will continue.

According to Reuters, a Qatari delegation will travel to Cairo on Tuesday to resume indirect talks between Israel and Hamas through mediators.

Qatar has expressed hope that the talks will lead to an immediate and permanent cease-fire agreement in Gaza.