About whether ChatGPT should hand off tasks like arithmetic to specialized tools.
Has this happened?
Yes 55 (49%)Not sure 20 (18%)No 37 (33%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT should hand off tasks like arithmetic to specialized tools.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
That would work, but it seems antithetical to AI to have to treat every operation as a special case like that. They want GPT to be able to write computer programs but it'll never be able to work completely independent of humans if every possible domain needs its own plugin to be reliable.