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by tempfile 6 days ago
This deduction is baseless, there is no reason to think an LLM will only hallucinate on complex topics. They still get the "number of es in seventeen" question wrong regularly. The kind of mistakes an LLM makes has no clear resemblance to the kind of mistakes a human makes, because they are not doing the same thing.
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Specific quirk of llms, also pretty much solved by existing thinking models.

I think you guys are misunderstanding me, you can still talk to a llm to learn everything about physics or maths.

The problem is that you have no idea of what you're being taught is actually correct.
And for the harder maths you want something not just to explain the answer but to diagnose your conceptual error behind your questions. Asking the teacher after class or tutorial type systems work efficiently for a reason.