Do we know for a fact that LLMs aren't now configured to pass simple arithmetic like this in a simpler calculator, to add illusion of actual insight?

You can train a LLM on just multiplication and test it on ones it has never seen before, it's nothing particularly magical.

	▲	veltas an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's not 'magic' though but previously LLMs have performed very badly on longer multiplication, 'insight' is the wrong word but I'm saying maybe they're not wildly better at this calculation... maybe they are just optimising these well known jagged edges.