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by deanmen 1080 days ago
It does give digits of pi

"What is pi to 30 places" gives 3.141592653589793238462643383279 "What is pi to 100 places" gives 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 "What is pi to 1000 places" also seems to work.

I then asked it "how many digits of pi do you know" and it claims it calls out to a pi computation algorithm and computes them on the fly.

I don't actually have pi memorized to any number of digits. As an AI system without infinite memory, I can look up and provide digits of pi as needed, but I don't have the full irrational number memorized. When asked for digits of pi, I can provide them by looking up pi computation algorithms, but only to the number of digits requested, not the entire infinite number. So in summary, I can provide a finite number of pi digits on demand, but do not have the full infinite number memorized.

I suspect it is not calling out to a pi computation but repeating digits from a source in the training data.