How will ChatGPT impact LaTeX, TeXmacs, and writing math in general?

#1

Will it allow you to write math in any way that you like and it could then just know what you mean and convert what you type to a format like LaTeX?

See for example GPT4 converting user input to valid LaTeX on pages 25–26 here:

Maybe this could lead to a new input method for TeXmacs?

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#2

I asked ChatGPT to construct a matrix: construct a matrix template in latex, with a_{11} a_{1n} a_{n1} a_{nn} in four corners, and some dots in the interior, it gives the desired output:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

\begin{equation*}
  A =
  \begin{pmatrix}
    a_{11} & \cdots & a_{1n} \\
    \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\
    a_{n1} & \cdots & a_{nn}
  \end{pmatrix}
\end{equation*}

\end{document}

If I change latex to texmacs, it gives the same result. I guess ChatGPT takes a lot of latex documents in its training data, but no TeXmacs documents.