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> asking it to execute this type of program in order to come up with a solution I may be showing my ignorance about this tech here, but I believe the LLM doesn
by astrobe_ 2y ago
> asking it to execute this type of program in order to come up with a solution
I may be showing my ignorance about this tech here, but I believe the LLM doesn't even try to solve a problem; they try to generate a discourse that could pass as a solution or answer to the problem; that's more or less what the abstract states if I understand it correctly. But in no way does it try to apply some sort of mechanical reasoning like inference engines do.
To me the solution to this is to associate LLM with mechanical computations, that is an inference engine or an equation solver, rather than recombining the millions of solutions for similar problems it has seen in its training set. I believe I remember reading about teams attempting this approach. I can imagine for instance that if the LLM is in some way able to ask questions and use the answer, maybe it could just generate a prompt for an equation solver and include the result in its answmer.