Eric Xu (e/Mettā)(@xleaps):I asked GPT-live what's the square root of 1,258,963,547 fully expecting it would use a calculator as (I assume) it is out of distribution. No, it just gave me the answer: 35,481.8763. I then asked the log of it. Again correct. Transformers are built differently.

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Eric Xu (e/Mettā)@xleaps

2026.07.10 19:55

I asked GPT-live what's the square root of 1,258,963,547 fully expecting it would use a calculator as (I assume) it is out of distribution. No, it just gave me the answer: 35,481.8763. I then asked the log of it. Again correct. Transformers are built differently.