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Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
For AGI
This system was never completed and eventually scrapped, but it inspired Charles Babbage to do his work on machiens for calculation along with Ada Lovelace, which in turn kicked off the modern era of computing. The hardest part of the calculator is writing the logic for representing numbers correctly and creating manual classes of operations that cover all of math’s weird corner cases. So this entire process, in order to add “what is 2+2”, we do a non-deterministic a lookup from an enormous hashtable that contains the sum of public human knowledge we’ve seen fit to collect for our dataset, then we squeeze it through the tiny, nondeterministic funnels of decoding strategies and guided generation to get to an answer from a sampled probability distribution.
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