No, but I can use a calculator to find the correct answer. It's quite easy in software because I can copy-and-paste the digits so I don't make any mistakes.

I just asked ChatGPT to do the calculation both by using a calculator and by using the algorithm step-by-step. In both cases it got the answer wrong, with different results each time.

More concerning, though, is that the answer was visually close to correct (it transposed some digits). This makes it especially hard to rely on because it's essentially lying about the fact it's using an algorithm and actually just predicting the number as a token.

This is so far off from how they really work. It’s not reasoning anything, And even less human it has not memorize multiplication tables at all, it can’t “do” math. It is just memorizing everything anyone has ever said and miming as best It can what a human would say in that situation.

this is one thing makes me think those claiming "it isn't AI" are just caught up in cognizant dissonance. For llm's to function, we have to basically make it reason out, in steps the way we learned to do in school, literally make it think, or use inner monologue, etc.