Checking a table for correctness and filling up a table are not the same thing.
I also check for correctness when I manually count entries. It's an extremely error prone task.
How exactly could you check for the correctness without effectively finding out the answer? I mean this discrepancy is fundamentally the problem of P = NP or not.
NP is the class of problems for which it's hard to find the answer but easy to verify. The fact such a class even exists should hint to you that finding the answer and checking correctness can be two different things.
the point of my comment is that whether P = NP to begin with is still to be determined. in the case of ChatGPT, it's easy for it to respond, but how difficult is it for you to verify that it was correct, or not? how does that compare with the difficulty in doing the task to begin with?
Consider the time it would take to do manual entry for each of those examples compared with the time it takes to verify that the generated content is correct.
"Are these the correct state and zip codes?" is much faster than typing it by hand. You just ask yourself "is MA the correct state code for Massachusetts? Yep, next" rather than "Massachusetts that's... (lookup) MA, type MA; next that one is MI, already a state code ..." and down the list.
I would be willing to content that GPT will do the list faster and with better accuracy than a human doing the same work (that would also need to be checked for correctness).
