{"id":4725,"date":"2026-01-10T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:20:16","slug":"chatgpt-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/10\/chatgpt-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4722\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Problem-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Problem-Fig2.jpg 407w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Problem-Fig2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>This <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/math-games\/i-asked-chatgpt-to-solve-this-stupidly-easy-geometry-challenge-1fd9d9ad4cf7\">problem<\/a> is from BL\u2019s Math Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the area of the red triangle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BL decided to see what kind of solution ChatGPT would come up with.\u00a0 After several tries and prompts it seemed to oblige.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what BL\u2019s prompts were, and in the statement of the problem outside the subscription wall he never explicitly says what the problem is, namely, to find the area of the red triangle.<\/p>\n<p>There also seems to be some ambiguity about the constraints on the problem, that is, how much of the appearance of the diagram should the solver assume?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Problem-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Problem-260109.pdf\">ChatGPT Problem<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This problem is from BL\u2019s Math Games. \u201cWhat\u2019s the area of the red triangle?\u201d BL decided to see what kind of solution ChatGPT would come up with.\u00a0 After several tries and prompts it seemed to oblige.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what BL\u2019s prompts were, and in the statement of the problem outside the subscription wall he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[274,13],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-bl-puzzles","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}