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Large Language Models have many limitations and one of them is dealing with numbers and exact data. But they can make up for this with one of their strengths which is writing computer code.
Many tools such as Gemini or ChatGPT use this to make up for problems with math. So when a user asks a numerical question, the model is trained to write some computer code to calculate it, the system runs the code and displays the answer.
ChatGPT Plus has a mode called Advanced Data Analysis that takes this much further. It essentially starts a small virtual computer in the background and lets you perform quite complex tasks including data analysis on Excel sheets or image transformations.
Many people assume this is all done by the “AI” itself but the LLM only writes the code based on the users’ instructions.
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Read through all steps first.
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