Alexander Terenin @avt.im · Nov 10

ML theory/methods folks: have you found ChatGPT useful as a substitute for Google search for technical questions in cases where Google doesn't give the answer? It has not worked well for me. Example below. Please reply if it has worked for you, with what you did so I can learn!

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Leon Rofagha · Nov 20

It seems like you’re using 4o and not o1-preview. For mathematics the difference is pretty stark

Alexander Terenin · Nov 10

I recently tried to use ChatGPT to help recall some basics on balls, cubes, and coverings. The question: upper-bound the covering number of the cube [-1,1]^d by 2-norm balls of radius \delta. I, perhaps embarrassingly, forgot the answer - remembering only a way to derive it.