I asked my local LLM to add 23 numbers and got seven wrong answers

vvira28 about 5 hours ago 4 commentsRead Article on viggy28.dev

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beardyw•about 1 hour ago

This kind of thing beats me. Why should a "Large Language Model" be expected to act as a calculator. Clue one is on the name, clue two might be an understanding that it is based on statistics, it is not the deterministic tool you need.

horizontech-dev•about 3 hours ago

Though it’s obvious, nice write up. This is the kinda rabbit hole I enjoy going through and reading.

sitapati•about 4 hours ago

Have you thought of using a calculator for this task?

vira28•about 4 hours ago

Did exactly that for the actual filing — Python, mentioned in the post. The 23 numbers were a probe, not the goal: I wanted to understand how it works.