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Comment by 3np

1 day ago

This. People need to manage their expectations.

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.

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."