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The speaker says current AI systems struggle to multiply large numbers unless they can use tools.

Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025

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“which I think still remains a huge problem. I think the apple paper was a good um, there are actually two apple papers I discovered today. Um but the apple paper with the tower of Hanoi stuff I think is an example of problems with distribution shift. I think we've seen many of them over the years. We see that these systems have trouble multipl doing multiplication with large numbers unless they ca”
“to call on tools and so forth. I think there's lots of evidence for that.”
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