[seqfan] Re: Sequence from ChatGPT

[israel at math.ubc.ca]

Asking for an explanation or a proof is likely to return plausible-sounding 
nonsense.

As for looking up something, ChatGPT appears to know about
SuperSeeker.

Query: Does the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences have a sequence 
containing 3633 and 3598745?

Response: ******************* To check if the Online Encyclopedia of 
Integer Sequences (OEIS) contains a sequence containing both 3633 and 
3598745, we can use the "superseeker" feature on the OEIS website.

Using the superseeker, we can search for sequences that contain both 3633 
and 3598745 in their list of terms. After performing the search, we get the 
following result:

sql

Your query: 3633,3598745

The following sequences contain one or more of your terms:

Sequence Description ---------- ---------------------------------------- 
A262132 Smallest k>0 such that 3^k and 5^k contain all base-10 digits at 
least once.

As we can see, there is only one sequence in the OEIS that contains both 
3633 and 3598745 in its list of terms, and that sequence is A262132. 
****************************

Which sounds great until you check that A262132 is not that at all, and does
not contain either 3633 or 3598745.

Cheers,
Robert

On Apr 2 2023, Alonso Del Arte wrote:

>Proofreading might be a more productive use of ChatGPT here, e.g., "how
>would you explain that numbers with property *P* also have property *Q*?"
>Such a prompt might generate more useful content than asking it to come up
>with an entire new entry from scratch.
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>By the way, has anyone tried looking up something on the OEIS using a
>mobile device rather than a desktop computer, e.g., a Samsung Galaxy S8+?
>If you don't know how to fix that problem, ChatGPT might be able to help
>you.
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>Al
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>On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 12:37PM Arthur O'Dwyer <arthur.j.odwyer at gmail.com>
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>> On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 10:43AM <israel at math.ubc.ca> wrote:
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>> > Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT:
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>> > Write a new sequence for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
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>> > The result was
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>> [nonsense]
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>> Please don't submit machine-generated spam to OEIS. As I understand it,
>> OEIS is supposed to be a mathematical resource. If it ends up full of
>> machine-generated spam, it becomes useless.
>> See also
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>> https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned 
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33891538
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>> The sequence of concatenations of Fibonacci
>> > numbers and squares in both orders (not allowing leading 0's) is
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>> > 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 29, 30, 31, 34, 39, 40, 
>> > 41, 42, 43, 45, 48, 50, 51, 54, 59, 80, 81, 84, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 
>> > 95, 98, 113, 116, 121, 125, 130, 131, 134, 136, 139, 149, 155, 160, 
>> > 161, 162, 163,
>> 164,
>> > 165, 168, 181, 189, 210, 211, 214, 216, 219, 225, 236, 249, 250, 251,
>> 252,
>> > 253, 255, 258, ...
>> >
>> > which doesn't seem to be in OEIS, and I think I'll contribute it.
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>> Why? Is there anything noteworthy about this sequence?
>> "Computer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no>said
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no> submit it" is not
>> noteworthy. Computer says lots of things.
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>> I think it's particularly un-mathematically-interesting because
>> "concatenation" is nothing but an artifact of base-10 notation. If you
>> think there's something special about concatenating Xs and Ys in base 10,
>> why not also in base 8, or base 3, or base 37?  And why squares but not
>> cubes, Fibonacci numbers but not strings of 1s,...
>>
>> -Arthur
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