Comment on How LLMs can be Assisted to do Arithmetic Correctly by M

The answer is, as always, not to use an LLM. It's what Gary Marcus has been arguing for quite a while now, about the need for "neurosymbolic AI" which sadly has seen next-to-zero investment during the era of "just throw more neurons at it and scale up" ie. the connectivist argument that neural networks can conquer any problem if you just have enough of them.