Reminds me of that time AlphaGo got its ass handed to it multiple times, and then a short while later...
AlphaGo is when I lost hope for humans
“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4
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#22The sequence of these two threads is just too perfect. Almost likely someone is trying to make a point.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sam and friends must be giggling all the way to the bank: they have a service that 'probably' gives the correct result and paying customers are happy to retry until it gets it right.
> Sam and friends must be giggling all the way to the bank it's true but for another reason. they yoinked it away from the nerds who were baited to work on openai because those nerds thought how the name of the company was spelled meant something about how it would behave. it reminds me of how some act around software names like 'alpha' like it has objective meaning with consequences in reality
Rumour is that there are researchers at OpenAI making 8 figure salaries. I doubt those 'nerds' are too upset about it.
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#24Nailed every one. Some by saying not possible to answer but still.
Didn't nail the Rodgers and Hammerstein one; it still doesn't understand the reference to the ballet or that the "themes" in the question are musical.
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#25Nailed every one. Some by saying not possible to answer but still.
Got the 'five character word' question wrong. Admittedly I also thought it was correct at first glance but then went back when someone called it out in another comment.
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#26Interesting both completely whiff on the number of chapters in the Haj.
It also fails to write a sentence with only five character words.
It did get closer. For that type of query you can ask it check its work and can usually triangulate on correct answer within a single prompt, eventually.
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#27Nailed every one. Some by saying not possible to answer but still.
Got the 'five character word' question wrong. Admittedly I also thought it was correct at first glance but then went back when someone called it out in another comment.
I tried it with Bing (precise/creative) and it got both attempts right.
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#29Literary Libations: https://cratermoon.substack.com/p/the-literary-libations