I Gave ChatGPT Brainteaser Interview Questions

ChatGPT won’t be able to get a job at Google, Microsoft, or Amazon anytime soon. However, this AI gadget shows more promise with certain types of high-school algebra problems. ChatGPT reminds me of a know-it-all 14-year old who is often wrong.

My recessive nerd gene allows me to do passably well with the now out-of-fashion brainteaser interview questions. But like many earthlings, I’d stall out if I had to ponder something like the mind-numbing 100-door puzzler or an obscure probability question when under interview-like conditions.

Does ChatGPT do any better? Inquiring minds etc.

So I asked ChatGPT a few of the easy-to-moderate-level interview brainteasers. As any current job-seeker will tell you, these questions can be easily googled — they can be found here and here and here.

Even though ChatGPT has had the benefit of scanning the Intertoobz and saving the puzzler answers somewhere in its AI memory, the solutions that its neural network had worked out were a mess of twisted verbiage and bad logic.

It is clearly not reasoning in a way that I understand, even on the puzzlers that are considered more “logical” and in theory involve a series of connected deductions.