Terence Tao: LLM Math Is Simple, Unpredictability Is the Hard Part

Terence Tao said the math behind LLMs is simple—linear algebra and a bit of calculus—but the real puzzle is why models excel at some tasks yet fail unpredictably at others. He later shared the full interview video.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-15 · 3 related posts

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