Counting is math.
1 + 1 + 1 = 3 is math
Yes, that is because ChatGPT has been “tweaked” to complete math, more recently in the last release.
No, I simply have written a lot of code using the OpenAI API, used ChatGPT extensive to help in very tasks, and have read many papers on how GPT models are architectures work. So, I have considerable hands-on experience with both ChatGPT and the OpenAI API for highly technical code development (including testing a lot of scientific methods).
The “G” in GPT mean “generative”.
GPT engines are “Generative” in nature. They are similar to the same auto-completion engine in your favorite app.
GPT engines are not calculators. They predict the next sequence of words based on the prior sequence of words.
That’s what they do.