ChatGPT Meets Elchanan Mossel’s Dice Problem

Combinatorics and more 2023-11-08

One of the greatest hits of this blog was Elchanan Mossel’s dice problem, asked here and answered here. Here is how chatGPT (the free version) handles the problem.

You throw a die until you get 6. What is the expected number of throws (including the throw giving 6) conditioned on the event that all throws gave even numbers?

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