Large language models and a statistics assignment
I selected a group of cells in a spreadsheet that contained the data and the questions for an assignment in MS 150 Statistics. I typed only "Answer the following statistical questions:" and then pasted the selected cells into OpenAI ChatGPT. I had expected the tab delimited text in the gray box above, I was surprised that ChatGPT has also somehow picked up a screenshot of the selection area. Note how the screenshot conforms to cell boundaries which cuts off the questions, which was the case in the selection made in the spreadsheet. The paste operation pasted the actual cell contents, hence the questions in the gray box are not truncated. ChatGPT was running in the default free account mode. There was no explanation given that column one was the data. The above is the output from ChatGPT. Every single question is answered correctly along with some of the formulas where appropriate. ChatGPT somehow made sense of the layout, correctly inferred the location of the data, a...