cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41098657
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Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious.
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It's a little computer of course it can do maths. Where it struggles is working out what math to do, but so do humans.
If I need to work out what 12 out of 294 is as a percentage I just Google it. I can never remember the formula, the actual mathematics is not complicated, it's the formula I can't remember, and it's the same with the AI.
I get your point, I often search for equations, but really 12/294*100 is not so difficult to remember.
You've got two numbers and a division, putting the in the wrong order will give you a clearly wrong result.
The problem with LLMs is that they are not reliable at numerical calculations even if they got the correct equation. But that is now easily fixed by giving them access to computation software.