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jimbob45 • today at 4:38 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

WolframAlpha was able to do advanced calculus in 2009 fully for free. LLMs shouldn’t have affected math performance at all because the tools were already readily available for a decade at that point.


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xdavidliu • today at 4:43 PM

totally false equivalency. wolfram alpha cannot one shot word problems for one, and there are many many more.

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pixl97 • today at 4:55 PM

Wolfram is a tool, and LLM even without a harness is much closer to an agent.