# Intelligence, Literacy Level, Carpet?

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**Created:** [October 25, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-literacy-level-carpet/992053 "2023-10-25T02:18:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-literacy-level-carpet/992053/81 "2023-10-26T02:54:16Z")

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@LSLGuy beat you to it **[with a similar approach upthread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-literacy-level-carpet/992053/27)**.

One of the things I’ve repeatedly found with ChatGPT is although it’s usually pretty good at solving problems like this – and often amazingly good at solving much more complicated ones – it usually misses obvious shortcuts, like in this case the fact that the room dimensions were an integral number of yards.

**[Here is](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-page-in-the-book-of-ai-evolution-is-here-powered-by-gpt-3-5-and-i-am-very-nay-extremely-impressed/975945/893)** a more involved example. To solve the problem, ChatGPT sets up a system of equations, solves them, and arrives at the correct answer. **[But as I realized when looking at the puzzle more closely later](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-page-in-the-book-of-ai-evolution-is-here-powered-by-gpt-3-5-and-i-am-very-nay-extremely-impressed/975945/929)**, the puzzle is actually simpler than it appears, but the AI couldn’t see the shortcut.

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