[thatwasunusual]

> Yesterday I asked chatgpt to compute the probability that two words of five letters both began with the same three letters and it could not solve it.

IMO, this is irrelevant, because "normal people" would never ask this question. Because it has never been asked, there's also not a ChatGPT answer to it, because its answers are based on already existing information.

This thinking that ChatGPT is AI is just wrong. It's not AI, nor GI, so stop comparing it with that.

As a human, I can destroy your problem/question with one claim: you claim that the words must be built on the English alphabet. Let's throw some Æ, Ø and Å in there, shall we?

Can YOU solve that problem?

[pugworthy]

Yes, kind of playing the "gotcha" question game.

I really see it kind of like having a good junior programmer or intern helping me out who has an incredibly broad amount of knowledge. Sometimes they need some coaching or gentle correction, sometimes you say, "I'll take it from here", but inevitably there are those times where you think, "Great job! I'm really impressed!"

[qwertygnu]

Are you serious? That's your gotcha? It's just doing some math over a dictionary, it doesn't matter the language or characters. So yes, a human can solve a novel problem.