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Covered by Simon Willison; analysis only, with no primary source or newsroom yet.
Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increasingly large numbers. Here's the chart he shared of those results: I'm confident GPT-4o didn't cheat and use a calculator, especially since it got so many of the calculations wrong, but I was inspired to run the experiment again on local hardware (a DGX Spark) to explore the effect in a fully controlled environment. I pasted his image into a Codex Remote session (GPT-6 Astra)…
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| Expert analysis | 9 |
| Age | -11.8 |
| Content type | 6 |
| Not yet corroborated | -2 |
| Total | 1.2 |
These components add up to 1.1999999999999993, not 1.2. The total is what ordered your brief; the difference means a component was not recorded, so treat this breakdown as incomplete rather than as the whole reason.