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Ok, you have a moderately complex math problem you needed to solve. You gave the problem to 6 LLMS all paid versions. All 6 get the same numbers. Would you trust the answer?

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[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago
[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

If you really want to see how good they are, have them do the full calculation for 30! (30 factorial) And see how close it gets to real numbers.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I mean, I don't know why you wouldn't just use something other than an LLM in that case

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Probably, depending on the context. It is possible that all 6 models were trained on the same misleading data, but not very likely in general.

Number crunching isn't an obvious LLM use case, though. Depending on the task, having it create code to crunch the numbers, or a step-by-step tutorial on how to derive the formula, would be my preference.

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