I remember when this stuff was all coming out and people were finally excited about ChatGPT getting the problem with "which is heavier, a 10 pound bag of feathers or a 10 pound bag of bricks?" problem correct. But of course it got it correct. It was in the training set. Vary the problem slightly by just changing the nouns, or changing the numbers so that one in fact was heavier than the other, and performance went all over the map.
I just went to chatgpt.com and put into the chat box "Which is heavier, a 9.99-pound back of steel ingots or a 10.01 bag of fluffy cotton?", and the very first answer I got (that is, I didn't go fishing here) was
The 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots is heavier than the 10.01-pound
bag of fluffy cotton by a small margin. Although the cotton may
appear larger due to its fluffy nature, the steel ingots are denser
and the weight of the steel bag is 9.99 pounds compared to the 10.01
pounds of cotton. So, the fluffy cotton weighs just a tiny bit more
than the steel ingots.
Which, despite getting it both right and wrong, must still be graded as a "fail".
If you want to analyze these thing for their true capability, you need to make sure you're out of the training set... and most of the things that leap to your mind in 5 seconds are leaping to your mind precisely because they are either something you've seen quite often or something that you can easily think of and therefore many other people have easily thought of them as well. Get off the beaten path a bit and the math gets much less impressive.
I just went to chatgpt.com and put into the chat box "Which is heavier, a 9.99-pound back of steel ingots or a 10.01 bag of fluffy cotton?", and the very first answer I got (that is, I didn't go fishing here) was
Which, despite getting it both right and wrong, must still be graded as a "fail".If you want to analyze these thing for their true capability, you need to make sure you're out of the training set... and most of the things that leap to your mind in 5 seconds are leaping to your mind precisely because they are either something you've seen quite often or something that you can easily think of and therefore many other people have easily thought of them as well. Get off the beaten path a bit and the math gets much less impressive.