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Can AI solve 7th grade problems?

The short answer is no.

AI is becoming part of our lives these days, so when your middle school student solves math problems on their own you always wonder if they used AI help, and you also want to use AI yourself to try to solve problems that they failed to.

My experience is that AI can be used for neither of those tasks as it fails on 90% of problems.

The simplest 3 pointer Math Kangaroo problem is:The Mathematical Kangaroo takes place each year on the third Thursday of March. What is the latest possible date on which the competition could take place?

Let’s try feeding it to ChatGPT first and to Bard then.

ChatGPT takes the right path but fails in the end by making a stupid mistake thinking March 22 is a Thursday. I guess it’s programmed to be too human. Now let’s see if Bard is any better / less humane.

And Bard doesn’t disappoint, as I don’t think any human would be able to fail in such an epic way. April 1st is Bard’s answer – what a joke!


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2 responses to “Can AI solve 7th grade problems?”

  1. Savr Avatar
    Savr

    ChatGPT has improved dramatically.

    Question:
    The Mathematical Kangaroo takes place each year on the third Thursday of March. What is the latest possible date on which the competition could take place?

    ChatGPT 4:
    The latest possible date for the third Thursday of March would occur when the first day of March falls on a Friday. This would mean:

    The first Thursday of March would be on the 7th (since March 1st is a Friday).
    The second Thursday of March would then be on the 14th.
    The third Thursday of March, therefore, would be on the 21st.
    So, the latest possible date on which the Mathematical Kangaroo competition could take place, given it occurs on the third Thursday of March, would be March 21st.

    1. omikheev Avatar

      I noticed that the answers get better every time I ask, even in GPT 3.5.
      They learn on the go. There is a good chance that it got it right for you because this has been asked previously.
      Solving a problem that has never been asked before – that’s where they struggle.

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