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🔴 **Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics**

“_This process is illustrated by querying ChatGPT with questions from a history of mathematics quiz designed to highlight the common occurrence of mathematical results being misattributed. ChatGPT's performance on a set of decades-old common misconceptions is mixed, illustrating the potential for these systems to reproduce and reinforce historical inaccuracies and misconceptions._”

Rowlett, P. (2024) ‘Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 39(1), pp. 64–69. doi: doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024..

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@bibliolater That's logical (in more than one sense of the word).

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