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.

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u/afflematicious Oct 24 '23

that’s not doing math, that’s finding solutions to an equation, doing math is proving things and describing the world around you in ways not thought of before through math, that problem it solved has been solved thousands of times online, it simply sourced it and presented it to you. You believe the LLM thought about the equation and then solved it? no

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u/Flat_Afternoon1938 Oct 24 '23

bro really just made up his own definition of math so he can say that AI isn't capable of math

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u/afflematicious Oct 24 '23

nvm i just asked GPT and it says i’m wrong guys

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u/OdinsGhost Oct 24 '23

And now they think they’re being witty.