So I signed up for a free month of their crap because I wanted to test if it solves novel variants of the river crossing puzzle.
Like this one:
You have a duck, a carrot, and a potato. You want to transport them across the river using a boat that can take yourself and up to 2 other items. If the duck is left unsupervised, it will run away.
Unsurprisingly, it does not:
https://g.co/gemini/share/a79dc80c5c6c
https://g.co/gemini/share/59b024d0908b
The only 2 new things seem to be that old variants are no longer novel, and that it is no longer limited to producing incorrect solutions - now it can also incorrectly claim that the solution is impossible.
I think chain of thought / reasoning is a fundamentally dishonest technology. At the end of the day, just like older LLMs it requires that someone solved a similar problem (either online or perhaps in a problem solution pair they generated if they do that to augment the training data).
But it outputs quasi reasoning to pretend that it is actually solving the problem live.
It’s just overtrained on the puzzle such that it mostly ignores your prompt. Changing a few words out doesn’t change that it recognises the puzzle. Try writing it out in ASCII or uploading an image with it written or some other weird way that it hasn’t been specifically trained on and I bet it actually performs better.
“it can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong”
Not really. Here’s the chain-of-word-vomit that led to the answers:
https://pastebin.com/HQUExXkX
Note that in “its impossible” answer it correctly echoes that you can take one other item with you, and does not bring the duck back (while the old overfitted gpt4 obsessively brought items back), while in the duck + 3 vegetables variant, it has a correct answer in the wordvomit, but not being an AI enthusiast it can’t actually choose the correct answer (a problem shared with the monkeys on typewriters).
I’d say it clearly isn’t ignoring the prompt or differences from the original river crossings. It just can’t actually reason, and the problem requires a modicum of reasoning, much as unloading groceries from a car does.
oh look it’s a loadbearing “just” in the wild. better hope you can shore that fucker up with some facts
my poster in christ, what in the fuck are you on about. stop prompting LLMs and go learn some things instead
“no no see, you just need to prompt it different. just prompt it different bro it’ll work bro I swear bro”
god, every fucking time
Well has anyone tried prompting it in EBCDIC? How do we know doing so won’t immediately create the super intelligence that "or whatever"s us to silicon Valhalla? Asking for a friend.
you know, I was briefly considering trying to, and I figured you’d probably have to be forcing it by content escaping tricks or something (at least I presume their APIs will do basic type-checking…)
got other yaks to do atm tho
All along my mistake was that I was prompting it in unicode instead of latin1, alphameric BCD, or “modified UTF-8”.