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    8 hours ago

    It depends on what’s asked. What’s “around 50/50”? What is “it” that they almost always get right? I think you’ve bought into their marketing. It can often do math problems, that are worded properly, well. That doesn’t mean it’s intelligent though. It means that the statistical algorithm is useful for solving those problems. It isn’t thinking. Getting correct answers isn’t thought.

    For the example in the OP, that is the correct answer, if correct is what you expect to follow a string that looks like this. For a statistical model, it did well. For a thinking machine (which it isn’t) it’s wrong. It accurately gave a string that is expected following the previous string, it just happens to not be the correct answer.