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by JimmyAustin 1121 days ago
LLMs being bad at math is a known issue, but what they are good at is writing programs. For example:

>>> Write a program that calculates if 120 is greater than 0.7.

>Sure, here's a program in Python that calculates if 120 is greater than 0.7:

    if 120 > 0.7:
        print("Yes, 120 is greater than 0.7")
    else:
        print("No, 120 is not greater than 0.7")
For straight input/output like what this model is trained on, questions like this don't work well. However if LLMs are equipped with tools (like a code interpreter), they get a lot smarter.