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List animals until failure

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Re: List animals until failure

#61
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.

Re: List animals until failure

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post #18
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There must be another table. I got "Are you Australian?" for "dingo" and for "cicada" "don't you love their songs?" edit: https://rose.systems/animalist/eggs.js

Hmm, what's this one? var h = hash(guess); if (h==7182294905658010 || h==6344346315172974) { return "Adorable guess, but it's spelled “rosy”."; } I'm guessing they're hashes for " rosie" or " rosey", but what?

7182294905658010 "rosey maple moth" 6344346315172974 "rose maple moth"

Re: List animals until failure

#64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.

"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove ) or domesticated / feral variants of it.

Yep, but importantly "pigeon" and "dove" are not exactly interchangeable words, there is just no consensus for which is which.

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

Re: List animals until failure

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One of the few sites with a fun "you have javascript turned off" message. > This game requires JavaScript. Or, if you've superior taste, take out a pen and paper and start listing animals.

I think that's meant to be a gentle insult, but I'm glad it had it's intended effect!

Re: List animals until failure

#69

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.

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.

Re: List animals until failure

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It might be an interesting LLM benchmark: how many can they list without breaking the rules (repetition or non-animals). Although I bet that big bucks would be then thrown at pointlessly optimizing for that benchmark, so...

Might be an interesting problem for understanding how various models perform recollection of prior tokens within the context window. I'm sure they could list animals until their window is full but what I'm not sure of is how much of the window they could fill without repeating.

Even more interesting is if a thinking LLM would come up with tricks mitigating its own known limits - like listing animals in alphabetical order, or launching a shell/interpreter with a list that contains previous answers (which it then checks each new answer against).
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