Comment by wutwutwat
1 day ago
I think of LLMs as being well equipped for handling dynamic data or adapting to unforeseen circumstances well (random code requests, website's ever changing layouts, typos, non-standard formatting in docs, groking out important info, etc), but math problems are be definition a very specific set of instructions to run, so is the overhead and "thinking" aspect of a LLM/AI even needed here? I'm genuinely curious, btw, I'm not asking sarcastically. Can't these math problems just be yanked from some test file and rapid fired directly at a gpu/compute unit?
> Can't these math problems just be yanked from some test file and rapid fired directly at a gpu/compute unit?
Yes this is exactly what I'm doing. I isolated the actual math question, and then sent it to my two servers to process and that's what's taking 10m+ to return. I'm asking them to solve the question and return the full answer along with their steps. I care about correctness so taking time is okay but I can't use 10m per solution.
Nono, parent was asking “They’re bad and inefficient at that, so why have an LLM do math? Why not just use some code and the CPU/GPU that’s already good and efficient at basic math?”