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💥 What’s New in AI: The OpenAI Model that Can Solve Text Math Problems 

Mathematical reasoning has long been considered one of the cornerstones of human cognition and one of the main bars to measure the “intelligence” of language models. Take the following problem: 

“Anthony had 50 pencils. He gave 1/2 of his pencils to Brandon, and he gave 3/5 of the remaining pencils to Charlie. He kept the remaining pencils. How many pencils did Anthony keep?” 

Yes, the solution is ten pencils, but that’s not the point 😉. Solving this problem entails not only reasoning through the text but also orchestrating a sequence of steps to arrive at the solution. This dependency on language interpretability as well as the vulnerability to errors in the series of steps represents the two major challenges when building ML models that can solve math word problems. Recently, OpenAI published new research proposing an interesting method to tackle this type of problem. 

The Model ...