It is hugely judgmental of people making claims and doing studies who don't understand that elementary arithmetic is a tiny part of math. I judge them. It's ok

It is hugely judgmental of people making claims and doing studies who don't understand that elementary arithmetic is a tiny part of math. I judge them. It's ok to be ignorant of a topic, but they shouldn't discuss it or make suggestions. The comment below/above sort of explains it, except I'd argue covering it starts/can start/should start much earlier than at university. Basically, the vast majority of most branches of math, especially pure math, involves very little in the way of calculation. And the way math gets taught (and stupid claims about "math brain") means that many kids who aren't in the top few % of "doing calculation" never get to do the classes where it's less important. LLMs, trained on words/tokens and symbols and logical combinations of them, are proving to be good at math, and bad at calculation/arithmetic. If an LLM went to school we'd never let it train on real math tokens. It would get shoved in the corner as a "model bad at math" because it was a "model bad at arithmetic".