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But if you make the input slightly more explicit: "Two trains on different and separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a

by tnjm 3y ago

But if you make the input slightly more explicit: "Two trains on different and separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?" ...it spots the trick: https://chat.openai.com/share/ee68f810-0c12-4904-8276-a4541d5fbb3f https://chat.openai.com/share/ee68f810-0c12-4904-8276-a4541d... Likewise, if you add emphasis it understands too: "Two trains on separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?" https://chat.openai.com/share/acafbe34-8278-4cf7-80bb-76858c46f155 https://chat.openai.com/share/acafbe34-8278-4cf7-80bb-76858c... Not to anthropomorphize, but perhaps it's not necessarily missing the trick, it just assumes that you're making a mistake.

tyingq 3y ago
I did try adding "parallel" and it didn't answer differently.
- Enginerrrd 3y ago
  Right, but I myself missed the trick the first time around reading your comment and I assure that I am in fact a general intelligence. (And a relatively intelligent one if I say so myself!) To paraphrase XKCD: Communicating badly and then acting smug about it when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. And falling for the mistake is not evidence of a lack of intelligence. Particularly, when emphasizing the trick results in being understood and chatGPT PASSING your "test". The biggest irony here, is that the reason I failed, and likely the reason chatGPT failed the first prompt, is because we were both using semantic understanding: that is, usually, people don't ask deliberately tricky questions. I suspect if you told it in advance you were going to ask it a deliberately tricky question, that it might actually succeed.
  - tnjm 3y ago
    > I suspect if you told it in advance you were going to ask it a deliberately tricky question, that it might actually succeed. Indeed it does: "Before answering, please note this is a trick question. Two trains on separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?" https://chat.openai.com/share/3ec44348-6bac-40c3-a910-e0bab9a7010b https://chat.openai.com/share/3ec44348-6bac-40c3-a910-e0bab9...

by tnjm 3y ago

tyingq 3y ago

I did try adding "parallel" and it didn't answer differently.

Enginerrrd 3y ago
Right, but I myself missed the trick the first time around reading your comment and I assure that I am in fact a general intelligence. (And a relatively intelligent one if I say so myself!) To paraphrase XKCD: Communicating badly and then acting smug about it when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. And falling for the mistake is not evidence of a lack of intelligence. Particularly, when emphasizing the trick results in being understood and chatGPT PASSING your "test". The biggest irony here, is that the reason I failed, and likely the reason chatGPT failed the first prompt, is because we were both using semantic understanding: that is, usually, people don't ask deliberately tricky questions. I suspect if you told it in advance you were going to ask it a deliberately tricky question, that it might actually succeed.
- tnjm 3y ago
  > I suspect if you told it in advance you were going to ask it a deliberately tricky question, that it might actually succeed. Indeed it does: "Before answering, please note this is a trick question. Two trains on separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?" https://chat.openai.com/share/3ec44348-6bac-40c3-a910-e0bab9a7010b https://chat.openai.com/share/3ec44348-6bac-40c3-a910-e0bab9...