Yesterday I spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT. I know, we have some other recent posts about it. It’s so amazing that I couldn’t resist writing another. Apologies for that.  

The goal of this post is to determine if I can effectively use ChatGPT as a programmer/mathematician assistant. OK. It was not my original intention, but let’s pretend it was, just to make this post more interesting.

So, I started asking a few very simple programming answers like the following: 

Can you implement a function to compute the factorial of a number using a cache? Use python.

And this is what I got.

A clear and efficient implementation of the factorial. This is the kind of answer you would expect from a first year CS student.

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