ChatGPT knows that Terrence is a prominent mathematician

Stream: Equational

[Eric Taucher]

In investigating what ChatGPT is good and bad at often give it things to try. Today gave it the post in topic 854 to summarize.

The reply started with

The forum post discusses the exploration of a mathematical law, referred to as the "854 law," and its implications in the study of finite magmas (algebraic structures). Several contributors, including prominent mathematician Terence Tao, exchange ideas on finding counterexamples to this law and its consequences.

In thousands of prompt with LLMs, mostly ChatGPT, never saw a reply note such. Kudos to Terrence.

Here is the ChatGPT share for those that can access it.

https://chatgpt.com/share/671a1bbf-1984-8013-963f-dadc2cbe4a46

As it is a long reply with nothing really new, will not be posting the rest. I don't plan to keep the share long term, maybe a week.

[David Michael Roberts]

A colleague once asked ChatGPT about me on a whim, and the generated text claimed I was an expert with some kind of international reputation with many celebrated contributions. I'm not convinced by it.