• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    LLMs don’t see numbers as numbers, they see them as tokens which is like a word or piece of a word.

    So “123456789” is like a single word to the LLM because it’s a common enough string of characters. This is also why they struggle with math.