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chickenimprint | 8 days ago

It's a well known fact that LLMs struggle with basic arithmetic of large numbers, that's not what they are made for. Most chatbots will just call a python interpreter in the background.

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simianwords|8 days ago

how do you want to falsify it? can you come up with a test?

chickenimprint|8 days ago

Ask a local AI or a chatbot that allows you to disable tool calling to multiply two large number for example.

This is what Mistral outputs:

The result of multiplying 63,157,997,633 by 63,114,90,009 is:

3,965,689,999,999,999,999,999 (approximately 3.966 × 10²⁴).

That's like 5 orders of magnitude off, the scientific notation doesn't even match the full integer, and the mantissa is also slightly wrong.