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Re:Ask HN: Why are language-models so bad at math? by soueuls on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:23AM (#34693955)
Because it’s primarily being fed a corpus of texts.

There is a finite number of articles on the internet.

There is an even more finite number of articles talking about Joan of Arc or copywriting.

But numbers are infinite.

Not many people write articles about why 2+17 is 19.

Not many people write about why 33 + 4 is 37 either.

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