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This is (probably) wrong, see: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis And specifically the part where it discusses addition
by ctoth 3y ago
This is (probably) wrong, see:
https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis
And specifically the part where it discusses addition under the heading Blessings of Scale.
- haltist 3y agoSo why can't GPT do arithmetic? At what scale do you suppose it will manage to add numbers?
- famouswaffles 3y agoGPT-4 can do arithmetic just fine. In fact, despite being severely hobbled by Tokenization (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989 https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989), it can perform arithmetic better than you could without a dedicated tool or pad.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoBesides your answer on tokenization being right on the mark (gwern even has articles discussing this exact issue - https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes), that linked paper is extremely powerful for theoretical thinking about this problem. I literally just left a comment claiming that almost all of human thought is encoded in LLMs, leading almost all tasks to be considered interpolation. If this is true, I suppose based on what we know of the curse of dimensionality it makes sense. Very thought-provoking work.
- famouswaffles 3y agoDamn I linked the wrong paper lol. Meant to link this. More pertinent to my point on Tokenization https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989 https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989