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Green of course? Anything else would be highly unusual and a normal reader would expect it to be called out.

Do you disagree with my claim that GPT-4 can perform some sort of basic reasoning about puzzles that aren't in it's training data?

Ok, here's a (hopefully) better worded puzzle, again made up by myself right now. There are 12 frogs. Five are green, 3 red, and 4 yellow. Two donkeys are counting the frogs. One o…

ChatGPT 3.5? I'm using 4 and get 11 most times but other numbers occasionally.

It clearly says he didn't see some of them either at all or as unicorns. The correct answer is 11. Edit: I do see now that "He saw" kind of messes the question up. My intent would …

Here's a question to ChatGPT I just made up: >> A magical frog was counting unicorns. He saw 5 purple unicorns, 2 green unicorns, and 7 pink unicorns. However, he made a mistake an…

Oh, yes, pairs of words is a good idea. I also have a bilingual dictionary and can generate a prompt for each entry something like "here's a word in , write a dictionary definition…

What would a good fine-tuning dataset for language translation look like? I want to try fine-tuning to machine translate to and from a fairly niche language ( https://en.wikipedia.…

People who practice Breatharianism claim to live without food and get sustenance from various mystical sources, including sunshine (they either don't live very long or else are fra…

This is something I've tried to figure out this week. I tried Youtube Kids because I wanted the content to be pre-approve only, I liked the toddler friendly controls, and the app c…

> The attacker conducted a series of sophisticated voice phishing attacks under the guise of various trusted organizations attempting to convince the victim to accept multi-factor …

I haven't really talked to anyone who's contested the fact that thousands of Russian soldiers and Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians have been killed.

Yes, of course it's likely there are some who oppose the war but are uneasy about expressing that to a stranger. I was just surprised to get no support at all.

I've been text messaging with random Russians a bunch over the last couple weeks and have had conversations with ~100 people, some of them quite extensive. Not once has anyone real…

I had a good laugh when I saw my grandma using her iPad calculator app to do her finances. The app was displaying an an ad, she didn't want to see it and stuck a sticker over that …

The moon doesn't visibly have bulk or mass like a ball, house, or mountain does. And I was referring to earth as the entire world. Edit: But the landscape, fields, meadows, distric…

Yes, sort of, but a lot more than counting. I think Thai has counting words too, but I think they are not as central to the grammar or as flexible as Karen classifiers. Sort of lik…

The Sgaw Karen language from Thailand and Burma has a system of what I've always called classifiers, but reading this, it sounds like they might be properly called genders too? Eve…

Ha! Around that age (actually probably a little older) I begged and pleaded with my mom to get saltpeter and sulfur to make firecrackers and rockets. Eventually she relented and go…

Maybe so.. but technology wise I don't think there's anything here that doesn't exist yet or that is even exceptionally advanced. It's just a matter of putting it all together and …

I want an appliance that combines the functions of refrigerator, pantry, stove, oven, dishwasher, and that has manipulators inside capable of picking the ingredients, cleaning, pee…

I set this up for my family and I a few months ago and we set all our browsers and devices to use it as the default search engine. We've been really happy with it. I also set up a …

> I.e. when you are being selected for random questioning entering US as a non-US citizen, you'd benefit from steganography-like approach: you give a password, and relatively bland…

Let companies decide what is ok on their own platforms, but don't let them get so big, and break them up now that they have become so big.