[soloist11]

I don't know what that means. There is nothing "mental" happening in the circuits of the computer or the function graph which is implemented on top of it.

[GaggiX]

In the context of AI, it's a term that I borrow from human cognition to describe rapid calculations without external aids.

[soloist11]

The comparison still makes no sense. What would be an external aid for a computer?

[GaggiX]

Well for the LLM would be a calculator.

[soloist11]

The LLM is a calculator. Think about it.

[fragmede]

The LLM is an LLM. It runs on computer hardware which has an ALU, but that doesn't make the LLM a calculator. The LLM can, however, call out to a calculator to do addition when it deems necessary.

[soloist11]

The LLM is not doing anything other than arithmetic calculations. Every operation an LLM is doing can be done with a calculator.

[GaggiX]

It's not.

[soloist11]

Are you sure?