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Apparently I won't be using Bard anytime soon based on that answer. Frightening that many people will likely just believe whatever AI spouts out. The AI generator says it, so it must be true.
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Quote: Originally posted by Orange71 on Aug 6, 2023
Apparently I won't be using Bard anytime soon based on that answer. Frightening that many people will likely just believe whatever AI spouts out. The AI generator says it, so it must be true.
All the popular publicly available AIs are very bad at math and explaining math. A few months back I tested Chat GPT with this "trick" question:
What is the smallest prime factor of 3^33333333333 + 1?
It gave some bull sh1t answer about not being able to factor numbers that large, but it missed the obvious: 3^N + 1 is always even for any non-negative integer N, so the smallest prime factor is 2.
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Quote: Originally posted by cottoneyedjoe on Aug 7, 2023
All the popular publicly available AIs are very bad at math and explaining math. A few months back I tested Chat GPT with this "trick" question:
What is the smallest prime factor of 3^33333333333 + 1?
It gave some bull sh1t answer about not being able to factor numbers that large, but it missed the obvious: 3^N + 1 is always even for any non-negative integer N, so the smallest prime factor is 2.
cottoneyedjoe, very interesting indeed!
FYI, Microsoft Bing AI chat (an extension of Edge browser) got it right, as follows:
"The smallest prime factor of 3^33333333333 + 1 is 2. This is because any odd number raised to an odd power will result in an odd number, and adding 1 to an odd number will always result in an even number. Since 2 is the smallest prime number and the only even prime number, it is the smallest prime factor of 3^33333333333 + 1. Is there anything else you would like to know? 😊"
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Quote: Originally posted by Orange71 on Aug 7, 2023
cottoneyedjoe, very interesting indeed!
FYI, Microsoft Bing AI chat (an extension of Edge browser) got it right, as follows:
"The smallest prime factor of 3^33333333333 + 1 is 2. This is because any odd number raised to an odd power will result in an odd number, and adding 1 to an odd number will always result in an even number. Since 2 is the smallest prime number and the only even prime number, it is the smallest prime factor of 3^33333333333 + 1. Is there anything else you would like to know? 😊"
They are getting smarter then, LOL. Supposedly they also learn from all the times people correct them when they get wrong answers. Maybe Chat GPT wised up since I last tried it.
A slightly harder trick question for the AI chatbots is "What is the smallest prime factor of 2^333333333333333 + 1?" The answer is 3, because 2 raised to any odd positive integer power plus 1 is a multiple of 3.