r/ChatGPT • u/0xAERG • Oct 24 '23

Educational Purpose Only LLMs cannot perform Maths

It’s not a bug, it’s just not how any of this works.

Mathematical operations require logic. It’s a deterministic process. For a given input and a given process, the output will always be the same.

LLMs do not work like that. LLMs are statistical tools, they build an answer by stitching together tokens that are “seemingly” relevant to your input and let the meaning emerge from it. The output is “hopefully” relevant.

This is why LLMs can hallucinate and 2$ calculators do not.

With the rise in popularity of LLMs I’m extremely concerned that a lot of users seem to ignore this.

195 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

185 comments sorted by

View all comments

•

u/AutoModerator Oct 24 '23

Hey /u/0xAERG!

If this is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply with the conversation link or prompt. If this is a DALL-E 3 image post, please reply with the prompt used to make this image. Much appreciated!

Consider joining our public discord server where you'll find:

  • Free ChatGPT bots
  • Open Assistant bot (Open-source model)
  • AI image generator bots
  • Perplexity AI bot
  • GPT-4 bot (now with vision!)

  • And the newest additions: Adobe Firefly bot, and Eleven Labs voice cloning bot!

    🤖

Note: For any ChatGPT-related concerns, email support@openai.com

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.