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Comment by geysersam

15 days ago

How can you make that claim? Have you ever used an LLM that hasn't encountered high school algebra in it's training data? I don't think so.

I have at least encountered many LLMs with many school's worth of algebra knowledge, but fail miserably at algebra problems.

Similarly, they've ingested human-centuries or more of spelling bee related text, but can't reliably count the number of Rs in strawberry. (yes, I understand tokenization is to blame for a large part of this. perhaps that kind of limitation applies to other things too?)

  • Similarly, they've ingested human-centuries or more of spelling bee related text, but can't reliably count the number of Rs in strawberry

    Sigh

    • That sigh might be a chronic condition, if it's happening even when people demonstrate a decent understanding of the causes. You may want to get that looked at.