Arithmetic Without Numbers
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What happens inside an LLM when it tries to calculate with nothing but matrices.
  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    I am shocked that no commercial LLMs are offered with a math tool. It could gather up the parameters and pass it into a math execution program and return the results. Then all math would be completely accurate.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      What’s weird is that they do in fact pass the calculations on to other programs (or say they do) and then fuck it up afterwards.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Wolfram Alpha has been doing a pretty impressive job of turning natural language maths expressions into symbolic calculation for a very long time. LLMs are completely redundant in this area.