By: Emila Zhang

Ai is a robot, and robots can be much smarter than humans. They can solve daily problems, do chores, solve math problems, or complete a task that is too dangerous or boring for humans. They are extremely useful and smart, but curiously, artificially intelligent chatbots seem to be designed to have more advanced knowledge of arts than of calculations.

When the first giant computers of the 1940s filled the room, they were programmed to do math and beat humans on accuracy and performance. Computers have been tireless, fast, accurate calculating machines that were much better than hiring human computers to do the work.

According to a New York Times article, “Traditionally, computers have been programmed to follow step-by-step rules and retrieve information in structured databases. They were powerful but brittle. So past efforts at A.I. hit a wall. Yet more than a decade ago, a different approach broke though and began to deliver striking gains. The underlying technology, called a neural network, is loosely modeled on the human brain.”

“This technology does brilliant things, but it doesn’t do everything,” Dr. Kristian Hammond，a computer science professor and artificial intelligence researcher at Northwestern University ，Illinois. “Everybody wants the answer to AI to be one thing. That is foolish.”

Sometimes, AI can get confused just by a simple math problem or a multiple-step word problem. But what AI‘’s go-to move is language. AI has a vast knowledge base of language arts and communication. It can also make lists, write an essay, compose a poem, or summarize a book or story. As we humans know, language is a flexible and flowing subject that we use every day, so the best computer scientists in the world have likely designed AI to be more like humans, in a way!

While AI is an Arts whiz, people are testing and questioning its accuracy. Chat GPT has been tested to score 89 percent on high school SAT problems. Chat GPT can also do large number multiplication and long division.

The Chief Learning Officer of Khan Academy, Kristen Dicerbo, said Khan Academy is now experimenting with an AI Tutor and teaching assistant, introduced the subject of math accuracy.

“It is a problem, as many of you know,” Dicerbo said.

Though AI is still advancing in math, AI is smart …. in words!

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