Comment by cratermoon 10 months ago LLMs can't do math. 9 comments cratermoon Reply 3np 10 months ago This. People need to manage their expectations. ianks 10 months ago LLMs and tempered expectations, like oil and water Spivak 10 months ago We're giving them calculators though, surely Google could provide a limited set of tools given Search already has a fairly sophisticated calculator.I've been having my AI stuff successfully do math since early gp3 days with this method— even before "tool calling." ckemere 10 months ago Why offer a solution then? Seems fairly easy for google to avoid giving the final number? cratermoon 9 months ago That's not how LLMs work. These systems take a stream of tokens, do some linear algebra to find a stream of tokens within the parameters of their vector similarity, and spit out the result. jbs789 10 months ago Expectations can only be managed by someone who has sufficient understanding - in this case Google by not providing the result. scarface_74 10 months ago LLMs can’t do math. But that’s a solved problem. ChatGPT has had a built in Python runtime that can do math for years - at least the paid version. cratermoon 9 months ago Oh boy, python but now it costs $10,000 per formula.Why? scarface_74 9 months ago It’s $20/month for ChatGPT+.
3np 10 months ago This. People need to manage their expectations. ianks 10 months ago LLMs and tempered expectations, like oil and water Spivak 10 months ago We're giving them calculators though, surely Google could provide a limited set of tools given Search already has a fairly sophisticated calculator.I've been having my AI stuff successfully do math since early gp3 days with this method— even before "tool calling." ckemere 10 months ago Why offer a solution then? Seems fairly easy for google to avoid giving the final number? cratermoon 9 months ago That's not how LLMs work. These systems take a stream of tokens, do some linear algebra to find a stream of tokens within the parameters of their vector similarity, and spit out the result. jbs789 10 months ago Expectations can only be managed by someone who has sufficient understanding - in this case Google by not providing the result.
Spivak 10 months ago We're giving them calculators though, surely Google could provide a limited set of tools given Search already has a fairly sophisticated calculator.I've been having my AI stuff successfully do math since early gp3 days with this method— even before "tool calling."
ckemere 10 months ago Why offer a solution then? Seems fairly easy for google to avoid giving the final number? cratermoon 9 months ago That's not how LLMs work. These systems take a stream of tokens, do some linear algebra to find a stream of tokens within the parameters of their vector similarity, and spit out the result.
cratermoon 9 months ago That's not how LLMs work. These systems take a stream of tokens, do some linear algebra to find a stream of tokens within the parameters of their vector similarity, and spit out the result.
jbs789 10 months ago Expectations can only be managed by someone who has sufficient understanding - in this case Google by not providing the result.
scarface_74 10 months ago LLMs can’t do math. But that’s a solved problem. ChatGPT has had a built in Python runtime that can do math for years - at least the paid version. cratermoon 9 months ago Oh boy, python but now it costs $10,000 per formula.Why? scarface_74 9 months ago It’s $20/month for ChatGPT+.
cratermoon 9 months ago Oh boy, python but now it costs $10,000 per formula.Why? scarface_74 9 months ago It’s $20/month for ChatGPT+.
This. People need to manage their expectations.
LLMs and tempered expectations, like oil and water
We're giving them calculators though, surely Google could provide a limited set of tools given Search already has a fairly sophisticated calculator.
I've been having my AI stuff successfully do math since early gp3 days with this method— even before "tool calling."
Why offer a solution then? Seems fairly easy for google to avoid giving the final number?
That's not how LLMs work. These systems take a stream of tokens, do some linear algebra to find a stream of tokens within the parameters of their vector similarity, and spit out the result.
Expectations can only be managed by someone who has sufficient understanding - in this case Google by not providing the result.
LLMs can’t do math. But that’s a solved problem. ChatGPT has had a built in Python runtime that can do math for years - at least the paid version.
Oh boy, python but now it costs $10,000 per formula.
Why?
It’s $20/month for ChatGPT+.