Of course it can do math. It wasn't told to do math.
THIS is pattern identification and replication of math written out as prose. That was the ask, and it provided.
It's not higher reasoning, but the output mimics higher reasoning to the inattentive eye. That's why it's so dangerous.
More and more AI is reminding me of the "thinking" computers that Captain Kirk could talk into self-destructing over some high school debate team logic trick.
