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No LLMs is impressive. Also recognizes "drop bear". Well played.

Hahah in a moment of desperation I put “unicorn” which its response made me laugh out loud.

Ahah. After trying myself, I immediately tried "Obama" and it works ! But oddly enough, most personality with a name in the "List of organisms named after famous people" doesn't work. Nether does bacterium or fish !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...

Re: List animals until failure

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I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

that's like saying tomato is a fruit

in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no

if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish

Re: List animals until failure

#103

I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

that's like saying tomato is a fruit in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish

Many people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and they were being rigorous about it I wouldn't list a tomato. If they're not being rigorous about it then anything goes really - sometimes you can put things like apples in a salad so that must be a vegetable as well.

Re: List animals until failure

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah there are lots of inaccuracies. I added bobcat, then lynx, and it would not accept lynx because bobcat was there. Oh, and, 77, just woke up. No coffee.

Likewise, it wouldn't accept “panther” because “tiger” was already there: > I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat. Why on Earth would it assume mean that , of all things, rather than “black panther”? If it's gonna be pedantic about it, it could've complained about “leopard” and “jaguar” already being there (which they were) instead of complaining about an animal that nobody in their right mi…

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Re: List animals until failure

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's like saying tomato is a fruit in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish

Many people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and they were being rigorous about it I wouldn't list a tomato. If they're not being rigorous about it then anything goes really - sometimes you can put things like apples in a salad so that must be a…

A tomato is definitely a vegetable.

Botanically, there are no such things as vegetables. The classification of a thing as a "vegetable" is strictly a culinary distinction. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges, they're all the fruit of the plant, but the first two are culinarily classified as vegetables and the last two as fruits.

Also, salad is a preparation method, specifically the chopping of ingredients and the application of a sauce to make a semi homogeneous dish. It is not strictly a dish of chopped vegetables, so putting apples "in a salad" doesn't mean the apple is being used as a vegetable. You can put meat in a salad and it doesn't make the meat a vegetable. Tuna salad can be made with no vegetables at all.

Re: List animals until failure

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I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

that's like saying tomato is a fruit in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish

Portuguese Man o' Wars look distinct enough from jellyfish. Their sails make parts of their bodies float above water, something no jellyfish can do to my knowledge. I can confuse species of jellyfish but there's no confusing the man o' wars...
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