Is math the path to chatbots that don’t make stuff up?

Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim, Harmonic’s founders, at their company’s offices in Palo Alto, California. Achim and Tenev believe that after years of training, Aristotle will be better at math than any human. — The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO: On a recent afternoon, Tudor Achim gave a brain teaser to an artificial intelligence bot called Aristotle.

The question involved a 10-by-10 table filled with a hundred numbers. If you collected the smallest number in each row and the largest number in each column, he asked, could the largest of the small numbers ever be greater than the smallest of the large numbers?