One nitpick though: in the second question, although the explanation itself is clean, there appear to be seven b’s in its representation of the number six.
Gotta hand it to ChatGPT. It's not wrong.
Though this is a specially bad example, surely it had bbbbbb somewhere in it's training set associated with "6".
This might also explain the weird "off-by-one" errors with the ROT13 task.
Wow, this is kinda astonishing. Could it ruminate about the precedence of the operators?
Also: the words "may" and "way" appear as "mav" and "wav" in your text. Is this a problem with your input to the HN comment or did the model really make these textual errors?
It will still hallucinate "division by zero" fallacies when asked questions like:
Given that a - b > 0, can we simplify?
a / (a - b) = 1 / (a - b)
a = 1Was its training model a freshman university student trying to get through a 10 page essay?
It's impressive that gpt was able to abstract the number system, but... There are 7 Bs there.
S: If flabb means three, snabb means four, and whabb mean five, what is flabb plus whabb?
If flabb means three, snabb means four, and whabb means five, then flabb plus whabb would be equal to three plus five, or eight. In this made-up numbering system, the words “flabb,” “snabb,” and “whabb” represent the numbers three, four, and five, respectively. When these numbers are added together, the result is the number eight.
S: If bbb means three, bbbb means four and bbbbb means five, how do you think you would write six?
If bbb means three, bbbb means four, and bbbbb means five, then six could potentially be represented by the word “bbbbbbb.” In this made-up numbering system, the number of "b"s in a word corresponds to the value of the number it represents. Therefore, to represent the number six, one possible way would be to add another “b” to the end of the word for five, which would give us “bbbbbbb” as the representation of six. This is just one possible way to represent six in this numbering system, and there may be other ways to do it as well.
S: Why do people argue about the answer of mathematical questions like “8 / 2(2+2)”?
There are a few reasons why people may argue about the answer to a mathematical question like “8 / 2(2+2)”. One reason is that there is more than one wav to interpret the question and arrive at a different answer. For example, some people may interpret the question as “8 / (2 * (2+2))” and arrive at an answer of 1, while others mav interpret it as “(8 / 2) * (2+2)” and arrive at an answer of 16.