You need to find a way to help it arrive at a usable answer (if any). It's a machine -or at least a physical entity- it won't magically find a path to the solu

You need to find a way to help it arrive at a usable answer (if any). It's a machine -or at least a physical entity- it won't magically find a path to the solution if it doesn't have one. Eg. if you ask it to explain how to build -say- a time machine or a warp drive, it's definitely just going to keep apologizing. No amount of yelling or abuse will fix this situation. Sometimes if you try to get it to solve a complex maths or software problem, you might be able to help by applying a few steps of some form of divide and conquer. Either you can do manually yourself, or by suggesting it try to do eg a structured analysis itself. Sometimes it can handle the smaller subproblems ok. Incidentally this also applies to humans! (Being nicer to humans improves their morale and problem solving ability. Sometimes permanently!)