Post #2657387
2026-05-08 17:17 UTC
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz I sometimes get the feeling that the whole of Alpha is a collection of perfectly okay mathematical methods, held together by duct tape and baling wire. That said, I find that when they announced that ChatGPT can interface with Alpha some time back, it seemed like LLMs were the long-missing front end for Alpha.
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@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-08 17:30
@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz @robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz I'd like to know how Alpha worked before LLMs! Probably, as you say, duct tape and baling wire.
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@Ember@blobfox.coffee 2026-06-06 20:22
@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz @robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz better something that always succeeds on some queries and always fails on others than something that fails most of the time and succeeds sometimes, randomly
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@c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io 2026-06-07 15:26
@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz @robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz yeah, one could imagine taking wordvec inputs to your expert system to help disambiguate things (or enumerate possible interpretations and have a secondary prompt about what you meant). The LLM chatbots though, blech.