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zx8080today at 6:22 AM3 repliesview on HN

Can "LLMs are bad at counting" be generalized to "LLM are better in complex stuff but make more mistakes in simple"?


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fluoridationtoday at 6:35 AM

I would phrase it as "LLMs are good at big picture stuff and bad at fine detail", or to put it another way, they're accurate, but imprecise and with low reproducibility.

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ozlikethewizardtoday at 6:33 AM

Its more LLMs are better at vague problems with multiple non perfect solutions, and struggle at problems that require precision.

klodolphtoday at 6:31 AM

No, I don’t think so. LLMs are good at a lot of simple tasks, but bad at certain simple tasks. Moravec’s paradox in a new iteration.

It applies to humans too. Calculus is “simple” but it takes something like sixteen years to train a human to do it, if all goes well. Meanwhile, most humans think that inverse kinematics is, like, the easiest thing in the world (it’s a super complicated task).

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