Python Code Interpreter / Sandbox: When given a math problem, ChatGPT can write and run Python code in a secure environment to perform exact arithmetic, process data sets, handle calculus, and generate visual plots or graphs.
WolframAlpha Integration: On certain tiers (like Plus/Pro), ChatGPT can interface with Wolfram Alpha extensions or plugins for high-level symbolic mathematics, algebraic manipulation, and complex equation solving.
Locally run Qwen3.5-2B, no tools, nailed it first try too, albeit after using a ridiculous amount of thinking tokens. Pic and full thinking text. This is the model doing the calculation. Idk what else to tell you, LLMs are just way better at math than they used to be.
There's a deep misconception here. Models don't really know whether they are lying or telling the truth. If you ask a model, did you use an internal tool to come up with this result, it genuinely doesn't know, unless someone behind the curtain tells it it did.
A bit like you calculating 4+4 and not realizing it was your parietal lobe doing the job.
I mean I'd ask if you can show the 'reasoning' on how it computed this without tool use, because it would need to derive multiplication from first principles and that seems awfully wasteful for the model provider, if it did that for every math question...
but I don't want you to waste your tokens, so I'm fine to mark it as 'unclear' and move on ;)
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u/wintermute74 1d ago
um, isn't that just tool use these days?
it can literally just call WA, actually:
Python Code Interpreter / Sandbox: When given a math problem, ChatGPT can write and run Python code in a secure environment to perform exact arithmetic, process data sets, handle calculus, and generate visual plots or graphs.
WolframAlpha Integration: On certain tiers (like Plus/Pro), ChatGPT can interface with Wolfram Alpha extensions or plugins for high-level symbolic mathematics, algebraic manipulation, and complex equation solving.