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Most average humans can’t do any of these things either. Try asking people on the street. Or in an average US college student.

For deterministic calculations you obviously want to allow LLMs to use tools to do math. Just like you’d want to allow humans to use calculators.

So yeah, you shouldn’t ask LLMs to do math just like you shouldn’t ask average people to do math. They both suck at it.


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hggigg10/11/2024

So, what exactly is the point of the LLM if it can't exceed an average person and produces results which are not trustworthy?

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buneskamin10/13/2024

Seriously? those are pretty simple HS math questions, I find it a bit hard to believe most average people cant solve them. Don't most people graduate HS?