Why LLMs, which don't induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don't truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:

Why LLMs, which don’t induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don’t truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on  —  No matter how much data you train them on, they still don’t truly understand multiplication.  —  Some Reply Guy on X assured me yesteday that “transformers can multiply”.