ChatGPT’s Latest Homework Help Tool Will Show How Math and Science Concepts Work

Some of my strongest memories from growing up, while not my fondest, are struggling with my math homework at the kitchen table while my parents fruitlessly tried to help me. OpenAI today hopes its newest ChatGPT feature will help students (and parents) avoid such, uh, intense bonding.

The new interactive learning experiences, as the company called them in a blog post on Tuesday, intend to illustrate complex ideas. The new answers include interactive widgets, so you can adjust different numbers in a formula and see how the answer changes.

For example, if you ask ChatGPT to help you understand the Pythagorean theorem, the chatbot is now going to do more than just tell you it’s a formula used to calculate the side length of right-angled triangles. It will bring up a triangle model in its answer and prompt you to play around with the side lengths, allowing you to watch in real

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