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I've been wondering...does it even matter at this point when you can just pull out a calculator in langchain?

Also side note...I went to high school with the author and hadn't heard about him for a while lol. That was a neat surprise.

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I suspect it does matter because the inability to understand arithmetic likely effects higher level learning. For example, If you want it to learn statistics, it likely needs a good understanding of arithmetic.

All tasks that rely on it will perform worse than expected.

Oh, I see. It's about a cap in baseline ability rather than whether it's technically possible to give it the extension?

> does it even matter at this point when you can just pull out a calculator in langchain?

That's alrithmetics. For math problems:

Each alien chicken has 3 legs, each alien rabbit has 7 legs, for a total of 33 legs, how many alien chicken are there?

Now try to calculator that!

Apparently it can.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...

A couple people have used LLMs as frontends to theorem provers/SAT solvers, which would handle that fairly easily: https://twitter.com/AlbertQJiang/status/1584877475502301184 https://twitter.com/ericzelikman/status/1605385835624378368

https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/tree/master/langchain...

Model would probably take that description and write python code to compute the answer.

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