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ChatGPT still can't do math

OpenAI claims that ChatGPT has been updated with better math capabilities. Evidence suggests otherwise.

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Dave Friedman
Feb 01, 2023
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OpenAI announced on Jan 30th, 2023 that ChatGPT has been updated:

This terse announcement doesn’t provide any information about what its “mathematical capabilities” are. So, here’s a mathematical capability to test: calculating the volume of a sphere. If you’ve forgotten this formula from elementary school, it is:

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