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by eloisant 1004 days ago
That's the whole problem of LLM: they work only on human language.

Even before computers we created formal languages (mathematics, logic equations) precisely because human language is too often ambiguous.

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Don't you lump math in there, math is 99% human language. The symbol pushing you learned in HS is just advanced arithmetic. Math is more like legalese with some very loose additional notation than a formal language.
Can you expand on this? Notation like "=" can be written using language but we define an exact meaning for the operator regardless, unlike language.
I suppose that begs the question, what if we trained an LLM only on examples of formal languages?