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Arithmetic and symbolic math are not the same skills. Anyway it seems to have gotten past its Dyscalculia.

> what is 126347832164398 * 127430123748901234

> Compute large integer multiplication precisely 16,100,519,888,114,640,782,096,553,067,132

Yes, it's telling that the "LLMs are bad a math" crow seem to thing that being good at math means doing ever bigger multiplications.

It's a standard trope that anti-ai folk love to draw upon.

Hey look! I managed to get the AI to fail at some basic thing (after trying 1000s of times), it means AI is failing!!!!!

It's a total red herring and mispresents the current state of the models completely. It's like meeting a child prodigy in maths and then saying he's actually dumb because can't drive a car yet.

And the fanbois can't admit that AI is flawed.

The truth is that they are tools for language manipulation. Advanced mathematics is language manipulation. Multiplication is not. Using it to describe them as having a critical flaw is a red herring. Using it to help people understand what these tools are capable of and how they function is valuable.

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