Can ChatGPT Solve The Fermi Problem?

Probing AI’s Capacity for Quantitative Reasoning

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Note this was conducted on ChatGPT 3.5, not GPT-4.

ChatGPT has taken over the world. With impressive feats like passing the bar exam and folding proteins, it seems like magic. However, ChatGPT is fundamentally a large language model (LLM) and there’s an ongoing debate in regard to it being…