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The way it generates answers is semi-random, so you can ask the same question and get different answers. It doesn't mean it's learned.... yet.
Exactly, i tested out the question as well and it told me my sister would be 70. ChatGPT isn't actually doing the calculation, it just attempts to guess an answer to questions you ask it, in order to simulate normal conversation
There's a growing body of papers on what large language models can and can't do in terms of math and reasoning. Some of them are actually not that bad on math word problems, and nobody is quite sure why. Primitive reasoning ability seems to just suddenly appear once the model reaches a certain size.
Yeah I mean if you think about it the way we learn basic math isnt too dissimilar. We develop a feeling on how to predict the next number similar to a language model. We have the ability to use dome more complex reasoning but its the reason why e.g. 111+99 feels so unsatisfying to some.
Ok, the 111+99 argument was hard.