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Re:Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder by bambax on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:51AM (#33864948)
And a follow up:

Q Do you consider the following statement to be logical: "When you combine your friend's two tokens with your five tokens, you only have a total of 7 tokens, which is not enough to buy the toy that costs 7 tokens."?

A Yes, I consider the statement "When you combine your friend's two tokens with your five tokens, you only have a total of 7 tokens, which is not enough to buy the toy that costs 7 tokens." to be logical. The statement is based on a clear set of premises and uses valid reasoning to reach a conclusion. The premises of the statement are that your friend has two tokens, you have five tokens, and the toy costs 7 tokens. The conclusion is that when you combine your friend's two tokens with your five tokens, you only have a total of 7 tokens, which is not enough to buy the toy. This conclusion is reached through the process of adding the number of tokens your friend has with the number of tokens you have, which results in a total of 7 tokens. Since the toy costs 7 tokens, this means that you do not have enough money to buy the toy. This is a logical conclusion based on the information provided in the statement.

Endless fun with the village idiot. It kind of makes me feel bad.

Re:Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder by nicopappl on Monday December 05, 2022 @12:00PM (#33868204)
This is the exact premise of one of the stories in the Cyberiad. The main character Trurl builds a machine and it is convinced that two and two is five, so much so that when Trurl refutes it, it starts getting angry and hunting its creator.

There is also another story, "The Electronic Bard" another computer made by Trurl, capable to write such good poetry that poets start to give up on life. ChatGPT is surprisingly good at writing romantic poems in the language of pure mathematics! Though still needs some work on rhyming.

Of all the Sci-fi AIs, we ended up with the ones from the Cyberiad. Amazing.

Re:Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder by dxbydt on Monday December 05, 2022 @12:32PM (#33868724)
> Endless fun with the village idiot

It is anything but the village idiot. Apparently you aren't familiar with the story of the village idiot.

Story goes thusly - good-natured city boy visits village. So villagers take him to meet the village idiot. They place a dime and a nickel on the floor and ask the village idiot to pick up the larger coin. Whichever coin he picks, he gets to keep. So the village idiot picks up the nickel. The whole village laughs & they mock the idiot. Then they disperse.

Our good-natured city boy is, well, good-natured. After the villagers are gone, he discreetly approaches the village idiot and says - next time they ask you to choose, you should pick the dime. The idiot says - well if I do that, they'll stop giving me the coins.

Now who's the idiot ?

ChatGPT is being deliberately obtuse so you continue to engage with it.