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This is why the steam deck is $1,000 btw
Whenever I see these, I try them out. Sometimes I can reproduce them, this one I can't. However, I remain extremely skeptical and believe that whenever one of these screenshots goes around, someone at LLM Company hard codes a fix for that specific fuck up. Against how many of these hard fixes does each LLM answer get checked nowadays?!
On the very long list of shitty things about AI is the fact that they are non-deterministic.
I was however able to get this fuckup on first try:
Wow, you're right. I got three different answers over five queries.
Right. Cause they aren’t answering the question. They are just determining the next most likely word.
AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses
I'm sure it's fine. After all, the AI triple-checked its answer!
I just tried this one and got:
There are 2 t's in the word colonialism:
colonialism
They are located at the end of the word: the t and i at the end of the sequence.
They usually include some randomness in the responses which is why they don’t always respond the same way (and sometimes will even often but not always get the answer correct, or visa versa).
I am also trying from a non English speaking country, pretty sure that has an impact as well on behavior.
That could be, but I think a lot of the models are the same because they can speak many languages pretty well. I’ve had a lot of success with talking to models I normally prompt in English using other languages. But I have also seen Chinese appear unprompted in response to English queries from certain Chinese models a few times.
Oh yeah, an LLM itself doesn't make that much of a difference. But Google does. Features and "features" often show up later on non English Google. The AI summary took a few months to appear on German google – even if you set your language to English.
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I tried it, and got similiar shorter answers but not the exact same answer. Sometimes it ends up getting it right at the end after fumbling a lot, and sometimes it just fails completely.
Searching on Google directly sometimes doesn't produce the AI Overview on stuff like these in my experience, but passing the search to Google from DDG with the bang (!g) almost always produces the AI Overview.
edit: I tried it again and it grew the ability of humor:
There are 2 't's in the word colonialism. colt-a-ca-l-i-s-m (just kidding) C-o-l-o-n-i-a-l-i-s-m:
- t = 0 (If you were thinking of colonization, there is still only 1 't' in the word.)
Interestingly, on one of my attempts it used python to count the number of t's and still ended up getting the "verbal" explanation wrong.
This might be worse then just giving the wrong answer....
funnily enough, usually I can't reproduce these, but this one I could. It's not quite as unhinged but still definetly very wrong
Here's what I got:
I can't believe Google missed that third 't' the first time around. So sloppy.
It took several tries but I got one that looped. Most of the time it gives the "there are 2" and puts random arrows.
This used to happen on chatgpt with "Is there a seahorse emoji". Here's a video explaining why this happens.
Wait the seahorse emoji is not real???
And this shit is "taking people's jobs"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Is this actually real though?
Just tested with similar results, output was:
There are exactly 2 't's in the word 'colonialism'. C-o-l-o-n-i-a-l-i-s-m Would you like to check the spelling or character count of any other words? Let me know!
Wow, I didn't think it was still that stupid
I don't think this particular genre of stupid will ever be fully fixed in LLMs to be honest, it's fairly structural
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"Coloniatism" is my favourite
Interestingly, it would probably do a better job of writing a piece of code to count how many T's there are, and then reading output of that.
Yeah, it's pretty efficient at that. When the strawberry version was around, CGPT wrote some python and executed it after asking it programatically
I'll never tire of LLM aneurysms.
i seen without "thinking", it tells you if there is 2.
google's search ai does not have "thinking"
the looping thing i also seen before.
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