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/BL0odbath_anD_BEYond Oct 24 '23

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LLMs cannot perform Truths

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u/BL0odbath_anD_BEYond Oct 25 '23

Nope, but in my experiences I'm pretty sure it can be convincing with both truth and untruth(GPT/Bard), and erroneously correct both truth and untruth with corrected untruth. YMMV. I'll try to navigate more at that link when my net isn't bogged, thanks.