That Thread Written by ChatGPT

[popeyespappy]

Last week I had a relatively simple math problem I didn't know the formula for so I asked ChatGTP. The question I asked was, "How much is the first year of a 5 year contract with a total value of 100000000 and a 2.5% annual escalation rate worth?"

It gave me an obviously wrong answer. I told it that was wrong. It told me I was was right the answer was wrong. Then it gave me the same wrong answer again. I tried to rephrase the question several times but kept getting bad answers.  

After a few minutes of arguing with a computer, I decided to figure it out for myself which I did using the -PMT formula in Excel. I went back to ChatGTP and told it the correct answer but not how I got there. It finally came up with a formula that returned the correct answer. Then I asked it for the Excel formula to do the calculation and it proceeded down another rabbit hole of wrong answers until I once again had to tell it the correct formula.

I went back to ChatGTP this morning before starting this post and asked the same question again. Apparently it can't remember shit because I got another wrong answer. This morning's answer was $17,805,580.20. The correct answer is $19,024,686.09. My conclusion from all this is a bunch of kids are going to be sorely disappointed when they get bad grades on their math home work.