cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41098657
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/huh-2
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Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious.
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Most big LLMs will pass the math off to a more typical service that will solve the math problem deterministically and then pass the result back to the LLM to include in its response.
So yeah LLMs can'tactually do math but from a user perspective they can.