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The paper shows that many representations for arithmetic in different domains route through a shared general addition module.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“calculator and there's like a do arithmetic on whatever something else or months and temperature and that sort of thing and like never these basically never meet but the thing that we show in this paper is that actually a lot of these representations root through a general general addition module”Play from 1:14:26Report a misattribution
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