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Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.
So far I have set it the following puzzles:
1) The Goldbach Conjecture - PROVED (for low n).
2) 5-disc Hanoi - PASSED.
3) Write a valid C90 program that is invalid C99 - FAILED.
4) Today's bucket-slosher from Kevin's BB site - PASSED.
5) Yesterday's BB multiple choice - FAILED (after six attempts!).
"Good game, good game. I hope you're playing this at home" - Bruce
Forsyth 1971.
On 5/30/2025 7:38 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some
point I will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for
now I've been setting it puzzles.
So far I have set it the following puzzles:
1) The Goldbach Conjecture - PROVED (for low n).
2) 5-disc Hanoi - PASSED.
3) Write a valid C90 program that is invalid C99 - FAILED.
4) Today's bucket-slosher from Kevin's BB site - PASSED.
5) Yesterday's BB multiple choice - FAILED (after six attempts!).
"Good game, good game. I hope you're playing this at home" -
Bruce Forsyth 1971.
About a year ago I asked an AI to create some original logic
puzzles, each with an unique solution.
It generated what, at
first, appeared to be valid puzzles. They were fairly simple
(e.g., three statements and a question that could be answered by
analyzing the statements). When the AI gave the intended
solution, it often contradicted the statements. In other
attempts, the solution wasn't unique.
Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.
On Sat, 31 May 2025 03:38:12 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.
I've recently been travelling and the hotel I stayed in at the airport offered free copies of the New York Times. They had a article reporting
that large software-focused companies, Google, Microsoft and the like, are now encouraging, or even requiring their developers to use AI tools to
write the code in order to meet productivity targets. The human developers were left reviewing and testing largely AI-generated code.
I can't help feeling there'll be some downside to that practice further to the obvious demoralization of the existing staff.
Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.
I'm not sure what to make of that, but I wouldn't want that AI driving vehicles just yet.
On Sat, 31 May 2025 03:38:12 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.
I've been running through a knapsack problem, which I hadn't heard of
before, with it. It came up with the following solution:
Total Value:
Diamond Necklace: £800
Ancient Vases: £1200
Silver Cups: £800
Gold Coins: £250
Total Value = 800 + 1200 + 800 + 250 = £4250
I'm not sure what to make of that, but I wouldn't want that AI driving vehicles just yet.
On Sat, 31 May 2025 03:38:12 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.
I've been running through a knapsack problem, which I hadn't heard of
before, with it. It came up with the following solution:
Total Value:
Diamond Necklace: £800
Ancient Vases: £1200
Silver Cups: £800
Gold Coins: £250
Total Value = 800 + 1200 + 800 + 250 = £4250
I'm not sure what to make of that, but I wouldn't want that AI driving vehicles just yet.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:48:40 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Yes, the three Rs are not its longest suits. It seems to do rather
better at history and geography (and turning ASCII into UTF-8 after
being specifically told not to).
Although I know little about the subject of Artificial Intelligence, I'd
have though the basics of arithmetic and the physical laws would be
embedded in to any system, in an immutable way, before it began training
on other, more questionable, material.
I would hope so, at least.
Yes, the three Rs are not its longest suits. It seems to do rather
better at history and geography (and turning ASCII into UTF-8 after
being specifically told not to).
All hope abandon!
Go to brainbashers.com, open the puzzle of the day, and note the URL,
which contains a date. You can hack it and go back about a year.
Many of the puzzles can be copy-pasted directly into ChatGPT. It
generally catches on pretty quick to what it's supposed to do,
and *sometimes* it gets it very right very fast, but often it gets its knickers in a twist, and it's frankly rather embarrassing when it tries
to count the letters in a word, and /fails/.
Although I know little about the subject of Artificial Intelligence, I'd
have though the basics of arithmetic and the physical laws would be
embedded in to any system, in an immutable way, before it began training
on other, more questionable, material.