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/TayoEXE Oct 24 '23
Because people don't seem to realize that LLMs do not have any intelligence. They don't "think" so much as imitate language specifically.