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Happy Hoosier

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6. LLMs are bad at math... don't trust them.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 2, 2026, 12:29 PM

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Computers, of course, are fancy adding machines. But interestingly, LLM's cannot yet properly route mathematical questions to the resources it has access to in order to give you a correct answer. It uses the same models it uses to hallucinate about other subjects to predict what the answer to math question is. It's USUALLY right, but USUALLY right isn't good enough if people are trusting it.

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