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This is actually a huge debate right now.

OpenAI is on the side of 'LLMs have only surprised us to the upside, so using crutches is counterproductive'

Whereas other people think 'Teaching an LLM to do arbitrary math problems through brute force is probably one of the most wasteful things imaginable when calculators exist.'

I'm actually very excited to see which side wins (I'm on team calculator, but want to be on team LLM)



I think I'm on both teams.

As GPT models get better at arbitrary computation, it stands to reason that their ability to use tools will rise as well.

Smarter models and smarter ways to get them using tools feel like complementary capabilities.


How about a more human-like approach: the LLM designs a calculator and then makes use of that!




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