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by sillysaurusx 1045 days ago
In other words, you need an external tool (paper) which GPT doesn’t have.
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No, I actually can, just not for arbitrarily large numbers. And 'paper' is just temp storage, not a tool. A tool in this case would be a sliderule or a calculator or an abacus. Long division requires pen and paper too if you want to 'show your work', just like I would have to show on paper how I did the square root of say 47515, you could simply choose not to believe me if I spat out the answer, but if I showed you step-by-step on paper and you followed every step you would either also conclude that it is correct, or alternatively that I had made a mistake.

That's why I think it is significant that chatgpt gets the addition spot on but gives a wrong answer to the square root problem. I can do better than that off the top of my head and I do not have access to the same computational resources that it has.

Yes, GPT has access to memory.