AI Does Multiplication Underneath. So Why Did Older Models Break at School Maths?

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Image generated by Chatgpt Like anyone who got pulled into the AI wave, I went through the whole thing. The amazement phase, the over reliance phase, the okay this thing just hallucinated phase., and then the slow ohh okay I think I am starting to get what this actually is phase. Ikr… everyone is talking about MCP, agents, multi agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and whatever dropped on HuggingFace this morning. And I will get there. But today I just want to sit with a small problem that nobody really talks about anymore because it feels too old to bring it up. A schoolboy problem.