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It also fails to write a sentence with only five character words.

Still fairly impressive. Probably better than most people could do if given 60 seconds, but probably worse than most people if given 10 minutes.

I would rate a person who provides no sentence at all as performing significantly better, and I suspect most people could pretty quickly come up with something.

Re: “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4

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How would you get the correct number? I just did two Google searches and can't find the correct answer anywhere in the first page of results ("Novel The Haj chapters" and "Novel The Haj chapter list"). Even looking in the "look inside" preview on the Penguin Randomhouse website doesn't help because it apparently doesn't have a table of contents. I'm not surprised ChatGPT doesn't know and to me the only bad thing is t…

> the only bad thing is that it's hallucinating an answer instead of admitting it doesn't know. Isn't this a fundamental issue?

Only if it can't be corrected. How do you rate the likelihood of this problem being unsolvable?

Re: “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4

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Still fairly impressive. Probably better than most people could do if given 60 seconds, but probably worse than most people if given 10 minutes.

That's wrong. (An example of a sentence with only five letter words I wrote in less than 60 seconds)

"That's" is not one word.

Re: “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4

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Interesting both completely whiff on the number of chapters in the Haj.

How would you get the correct number? I just did two Google searches and can't find the correct answer anywhere in the first page of results ("Novel The Haj chapters" and "Novel The Haj chapter list"). Even looking in the "look inside" preview on the Penguin Randomhouse website doesn't help because it apparently doesn't have a table of contents. I'm not surprised ChatGPT doesn't know and to me the only bad thing is t…

I did the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first link I got refers to 77 chapters.

Re: “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4

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That's wrong. (An example of a sentence with only five letter words I wrote in less than 60 seconds)

"That's" is not one word.

This isn't something that can be usefully discussed. "Word" has a vague enough definition that a contraction can validly be considered one or two words. If you try and look to linguistics you'll just see they use specialized words with stricter definitions.

Regardless it's more reasonable for me to say "that's" is a five letter word than it is for the AI to say "spells" is a five letter word.

Re: “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4

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Still fairly impressive. Probably better than most people could do if given 60 seconds, but probably worse than most people if given 10 minutes.

That's wrong. (An example of a sentence with only five letter words I wrote in less than 60 seconds)

I wasn't clear on how was using "better". Your example is better in that it fulfills the requirement, but I don't think it's as impressive as ChatGPT's answer. How long would it take to make a sentence that is at least 7 words (and also making sense, and ideally sounding good)?
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