hey_over_here

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   by hey_over_here 4y ago

   It depends on how you see it. I agree with you, generally, but in the limit, if you memorised all possible instances of multiplication, then yes, you could certainly be said to know multiplication. I've not just come up with that off t
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   by hey_over_here 4y ago

   Mwell, the article claims, and points to work that also claims, that large language models can actually be made to perform arithmetic well. They need fine-tuning, verification, chain of thought prompting and majority voting to be combined b
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   by hey_over_here 4y ago

   > It's a language model; why would we expect it do math or try to somehow shoehorn math into the model? Language models can do math, or anyway arithmetic. That's because language models are trained to predict the next token in