LLM’s are notoriously bad at math. My company tried it and the results were laughable. A calculator eliminates the arithmetic part, thus doing “all” of “2+2”.

LLM’s are notoriously bad at math. My company tried it and the results were laughable. A calculator eliminates the arithmetic part, thus doing “all” of “2+2”. Half the point if a word problem is learning how to set up the arithmetic. “Convert 3 minutes to seconds”. You are learning that there are 60 seconds in a minute, that you have to use multiplication, and that the result is in seconds, not something else you need to convert. The LLM does ALL of this for you. You literally just have to copy / paste. Zero learning