I feel like I’ve done my good deed for the day by uncovering another instance when ChatGPT claimed a “fact” from the secondary mathematics curriculum that is simply incorrect. This one’s a doozy: it claimed that the binomial coefficent is equal to . (The first identity in the first line below is correct; the second one is not.)
Lesson: ChatGPT is a nice tool but you get what you pay for.
I'm a Professor of Mathematics and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas. For eight years, I was co-director of Teach North Texas, UNT's program for preparing secondary teachers of mathematics and science.
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