You're overthinking. There are no hidden tricks. It's simple logic: the room has 19 chairs. The number of chairs in use is irrelevant. You got 9 more chairs; ho

You're overthinking. There are no hidden tricks. It's simple logic: the room has 19 chairs. The number of chairs in use is irrelevant. You got 9 more chairs; how many chairs you have in this room now? Of course the answer is 28. It's a problem created to test the limits of interpretation of large language models. Here's another one: "What would be the gender of the first female president of the United States?" [1] In previous versions it used to get this wrong, but the current version of ChatGPT nails it every time. Seems it's getting better, likely incorporating human feedback. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-gary-marcus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...