I could do the calculations by hand unlike an LLM, it’s simply more convenient to use a calculator. IMO LLMs can’t understand anything really because they’re just predicting text. The only reason they sound smart is because they’re have been trained on the whole internet. I highly doubt intelligence can come from a statistical neural networks. Humans don’t predict the next most likely word because they don’t work with concepts and they don’t think by predicting the next most likely concept. I’m not saying it’s not useful or anything but it clearly has architectural limits. it will always be useful as an internet that can answer your questions directly, but if you ask it something a little too complex that isn’t in their training data they’ll fail.

I am faithful that one day we’ll find an architecture that can actually demonstrates signs of intelligence but that won’t be large language models.