Re: AI: a new hobby

In article <102pnr1$1q3dn$1@dont-email.me>,
David Entwistle  <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> wrote:

Although I know little about the subject of Artificial Intelligence, I'd
have though the basics of arithmetic and the physical laws would be
embedded in to any system, in an immutable way, before it began training
on other, more questionable, material.

No.  These are large *language* models.  An LLM can only do arithmetic
to the extent that generating sentences similar to the ones it was
trained on happens to give correct answers.  ("Similar" is doing a lot
of work there.)

It is possible to add specific skills such as arithmetic to an
LLM-based system.

-- Richard