>>106198095>calculatorsThey wish they could function as the world's least efficient calculator. Doesn't matter if it's 2+2 or quadratics, LLMs get the answer by a combination of luck and repetition. We trust calculators because they always get the same answer to the same input. LLMs do not and even when it's right 90% of the time, having to check it in case it's the 10% takes so fucking long that it defeats the point.
Kinda the same reason quantum computing has gone nowhere in years. It returns an answer, but there's no way to verify the answer without doing it on normal computers anyway. Why? Because even when you think you've just done a variant of something that's worked every other time, well sometimes it doesn't work and how are you going to know if this was that time or not? Makes the whole thing worthless.