“She’s a bright girl,” Birchenall, an AI consultant based in a suburb of Manchester, England, told Business Insider. Yet her long division skills were stopping her from acing the standardized tests known as SATs, which are required for secondary school in the UK.
Birchenall said he last learned math in the eighties, and problem-solving techniques have changed since then. He could have hired a tutor, but he resorted to what he felt was a more personal, and cost-effective approach. He built a GPT, a customizable version of ChatGPT, one evening to help his daughter get back on track.
