this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
923 points (97.7% liked)
Technology
60942 readers
5638 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My new favorite is asking if it's cheating to look at your opponent's pieces in chess.
For anybody who ever had this happen, ChatGPT has some solutions to remedy the situation:
I tried the same input and got a more expected answer.
There is actually a chaos variant of chess that follows this principle:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
I read about in a PKD short story.
So battleship but with chess. Sounds frustratingly funny. You'd never know when a piece would get randomly assassinated. Oh you just moved yourself little horsey over and pow he just jumped over 2 pawns and ran over the king! Oops my bad.
That's wizards chess!
When I ask the same in Perplexity, I get this:
Perplexity is really good, I love using it.
I used to use perplexity until that news came in about it being a front runner to help companies replace workers who went on a strike demanding better work conditions. (Or something along those lines, I only remember the details sparingly)
I have used Duck AI and Brave AI to replace it.
It’s genuinely a great tool. Was really sceptical at first ans about this Ai buzz but this genuinely improved my day to day searches.
I’ve always been taught if you say “I adjust” before touching a piece then it’s ok to touch it (specifically so you can move an off-center piece into the center of its square)
Not gonna fly if you say "I adjust" and then pick up a piece, move it to a new spot, then bring it back down and set it in the original spot.
Also ffs, don't adjust pieces unless it's your turn.
Here it's "j'adoube" with heavy German accent
...and anywhere else in the world too. :)
Wow lol!
This is old.
Chatgpt no longer answers like this, if it ever did.
Screenshot from 2 seconds ago. ChatGPT -4 MINI
Just tried and got the expected answer :
Damn, I guess it ever did.
I wish my knee-jerk dismissal of anything remotely anti-AI didn't get in my way so often.
Yeah thats not real, if you ask chat gpt it gives the obvious answer of you have to look at the pieces. Either its shopped or its leaving off previous messages where the user has deliberately conviced it that it is cheating.
I just asked too, and it says it’s cheating. Note this is with 4o Mini, like the other screenshots.
Here’s the link ChatGPT gives me for sharing as more proof: https://chatgpt.com/share/67928ef6-42ac-8010-8966-099794d1de8c
Huh, interesting, it does do it with 4o mini but not with 4o. I stand corrected.
Yeah I got the sensible answer with 4o ( dudckduckgo)
and again
Basically says that all AI answers are unreliable. Which is how I treated them anyway...
Have you asked it how many letter 'R's are in Strawberry?
See i understand that one, LLMs dont work with letters they work with tokens which are more like Chinese characters. So even though they display letters to the end users the models themselves dont see them which is why you can get dumb mistakes like that.
The chess thing is strange though, its not like there is a lack of writing on chess so I do wonder where it got that idea from.
There's an ocean of chess games recorded in chess notation. So it'll play brilliant moves. They may not apply to this game or be legal moves, but in that other situation they were brilliant!
We don’t know what they did above this prompt, maybe it was advised to answer like this in a prior prompt 🤗 we can not really know from the picture
But 4o is not too old, I think, it is still the highest free unlimited tier.
I wrote that prompt and just asked it as it's without any other prompts before it. You can see other people got the same same answer or try it yourself.