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ChatGPT: Can't calculate even basic math. Is it getting dumber?

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Re: ChatGPT: Can't calculate even basic math. Is it getting dumber?

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post #6

I think you can always teach it a little bit, since for the chat session it holds "memory". So maybe adding/saying some basic algebra inputs it would output better or accurate results.

No, you can't teach it anything, and it will tell you so--it cannot integrate knowledge you try to give it into its responses (remembering the context of previous queries is a very different thing). And even if it could, "adding/saying some basic algebra inputs" would be of no help at all because it has no understanding of what the words or symbols in your text mean ... the knowledge that it appears to have is a statistical distillation of a vast textual database scraped from knowledge sources.

Re: ChatGPT: Can't calculate even basic math. Is it getting dumber?

#42
post #6

I think you can always teach it a little bit, since for the chat session it holds "memory". So maybe adding/saying some basic algebra inputs it would output better or accurate results.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems it is not holding memory anymore, at least for some prompts it says something like "I don't know what my previous answer was so I hope I'm not repeating it"

It has some memory of what your previous queries were that it uses for context; it does not know what its previous outputs were and never has.

Re: ChatGPT: Can't calculate even basic math. Is it getting dumber?

#43
post #17

Speedcrunch says the answer is 0.0200271516439577461. There's a difference of only 0.0000320002439577461 from Chat GPTs answer. Thats about 1/30000.

That misses the point, which is that it only does statistical text matching, not arithmetic.
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