Re:Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models...
by CGMthrowaway on Monday June 16, 2025 @03:36PM
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>the lived experience of a chemist is fundamentally different from the education they receive. Most chemists will begin to develop an intuition.
Is this a documentation problem? The LLMs are only trained on what is written down. Seems to track with another comment further down quoting:
"Models are limited in ability to answer knowledge-intensive questions, probably because the required knowledge cannot easily be accessed via papers but rather by lookup in specialized databases, which the humans used to answer such questions"
Is this a documentation problem? The LLMs are only trained on what is written down. Seems to track with another comment further down quoting:
"Models are limited in ability to answer knowledge-intensive questions, probably because the required knowledge cannot easily be accessed via papers but rather by lookup in specialized databases, which the humans used to answer such questions"