Comment by torginus

When I was an undergrad EE student a decade ago, I had to tangle a lot with complex maths in my Signals & Systems, and Electricity and Magnetism classes. Stuff like Fourier transforms, hairy integrals, partial differential equations etc.

Math packages of the time like Mathematica and MATLAB helped me immensely, once you could get the problem accurately described in the correct form, they could walk through the steps and solve systems of equations, integrate tricky functions, even though AI was nowhere to be found back then.

I feel like ChatGPT is doing something similar when doing maths with its chain of thoughts method, and while its method might be somewhat more generic, I'm not sure it's strictly superior.