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Basic math problems should be treated as a special vs general tool use. Why use Python when the computer evaluating the LLM can do math itself?
by roger_ 2y ago
Basic math problems should be treated as a special vs general tool use. Why use Python when the computer evaluating the LLM can do math itself?
- mhh__ 2y agoBecause AI programmers only know python (is the path dependency / real reason)
- luma 2y agoIt does do the math itself, it creates the code to do so and then executes that code to get the answer.
- mystified5016 2y agoThe same reason you don't use your desk calculator to run Python scripts on huge datasets. It's the wrong tool. Running an LLM and parsing and computing mathematical expressions are entirely disjoint operations. You need highly specialized code for each, it makes just as much sense to put a calculator in your LLM as it does to stuff a Python interpreter in a calculator. Could you? Of course, software is infinitely flexible. Does it make sense to do it? No, it makes more sense to connect two different specialized applications than to try shoehorning one into the other.