{"id":178515,"date":"2023-12-17T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-means-for-searching-for-new-solutions-in-mathematics-and-computer-science-using-an-llm-and-an-evaluator"},"modified":"2023-12-17T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:22:22","slug":"a-means-for-searching-for-new-solutions-in-mathematics-and-computer-science-using-an-llm-and-an-evaluator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-means-for-searching-for-new-solutions-in-mathematics-and-computer-science-using-an-llm-and-an-evaluator","title":{"rendered":"A means for searching for new solutions in mathematics and computer science using an LLM and an evaluator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-means-for-searching-for-new-solutions-in-mathematics-and-computer-science-using-an-llm-and-an-evaluator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of computer scientists at Google\u2019s DeepMind project in the U.K., working with a colleague from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and another from Universit\u00e9 de Lyon, has developed a computer program that combines a pretrained large language model (LLM) with an automated \u201cevaluator\u201d to produce solutions to problems in the form of computer code.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06924-6\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, the group describes their ideas, how they were implemented and the types of output produced by the new system.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers throughout the scientific community have taken note of the things people are doing with LLMs, such as ChatGPT, and it has occurred to many of them that LLMs might be used to help speed up the process of scientific discovery. But they have also noted that for that to happen, a method is required to prevent confabulations, answers that seem reasonable but are wrong\u2014they need output that is verifiable. To address this problem, the team working in the U.K. used what they call an automated evaluator to assess the answers given by an LLM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of computer scientists at Google\u2019s DeepMind project in the U.K., working with a colleague from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and another from Universit\u00e9 de Lyon, has developed a computer program that combines a pretrained large language model (LLM) with an automated \u201cevaluator\u201d to produce solutions to problems in the form of computer code. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}