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by somenameforme 797 days ago
Software could "learn" multiplication by simply creating a lookup table for every value to some reasonable degree. A test isn't going to have somebody multiplying 100 digit numbers, or even 10 digit numbers. Every single number up to 5 digits could be done with just 10 billion entries. This doesn't mean that a multiplication test is just testing memorization, or that math is just memory. It simply means that machine learning learning/application and human learning/application have relatively little in common, in spite of the constant and generally awkward attempts to try to anthropomorphize machine processes.