[ddp26]

I tried using wolfram alpha as a tool for an llm research agent, and I couldn't find any tasks it could solve with it, that it couldn't solve with just Google and Python.

[cornholio]

The obvious use case here is deep mathematical research, where the LLM can focus its reasoning on higher level concepts.

For example, if it can reduce parts of the problem to some choices of polinomials, its useful to just "know" instantly which choice has real solutions, instead of polluting its context window with python syntax, Google results etc.

[nradov]

Well sure, in theory any mathematical problem can be solved with any Turing complete programming language. I think the idea here is that for certain problem domains Mathematica might be more efficient or easier for humans to understand than Python.

[Recursing]

sympy and similar packages can handle the vast majority of simple cases