Aug. 7, 2025, 11:32 a.m.
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Odd AI Blunder

AI is replacing jobs, disrupting work and personal life on all scales. There are fears of 2027 being the year that AI becomes AGI and replaces all humans. I say to that: whatever. AI has its uses. It is definitely better now than ever before. Just talk to a chatbot and you will be hard pressed to know if the entity on the other side of the line is a real person or not. But it still cannot reason:

Me list 2 odd numbers that do not contain the letter 'e'

ChatGPT 4o Here are two odd numbers that do not contain the letter 'e' when written in English:

  • Two
  • Four

Wait… those are even numbers.

Let’s try that again with odd numbers:

  • One → ❌ contains 'e'
  • Three → ❌
  • Five → ❌
  • Seven → ❌
  • Nine → ❌
  • Eleven → ❌
  • Thirteen → ❌
  • Fifteen → ❌
  • Seventeen → ❌
  • Nineteen → ❌
  • Twenty-one → ❌
  • Thirty-three → ❌
  • Fifty-nine → ❌
  • Sixty-one → ❌
  • Seventy-three → ❌
  • Ninety-one → ❌
  • One hundred one → ❌
  • Two hundred three → ❌
  • Four hundred seven → ❌
  • One thousand one → ❌

Okay. Now let's look for actual odd numbers with no 'e' in their name.

Try:

  • Two → ❌ even
  • Four → ❌ even
  • Six → ❌ even
  • Eight → ❌ even
  • Forty → ✅ no 'e'
  • Forty-one → ✅ odd, no 'e'
  • Forty-three → ❌ has 'e'

So:

Forty-one (41) ✅ Forty-nine (49)

✅ Both are odd numbers ✅ Both have no letter 'e' in their full English spelling

Answer: Forty-one and Forty-nine.

Awesome...