cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41098657
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Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious.
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Most big LLMs will pass the math off to a more typical service that will solve the math problem deterministically and then pass the result back to the LLM to include in its response.
So yeah LLMs can'tactually do math but from a user perspective they can.