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265 points ctoth | 1 comments | 20 Apr 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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sejje ◴[20 Apr 25 17:04 UTC] No.43744995[source]▶
In the last example (the riddle)--I generally assume the AI isn't misreading, rather that it assumes you couldn't give it the riddle correctly, but it has seen it already.

I would do the same thing, I think. It's too well-known.

The variation doesn't read like a riddle at all, so it's confusing even to me as a human. I can't find the riddle part. Maybe the AI is confused, too. I think it makes an okay assumption.

I guess it would be nice if the AI asked a follow up question like "are you sure you wrote down the riddle correctly?", and I think it could if instructed to, but right now they don't generally do that on their own.

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Jensson ◴[20 Apr 25 17:25 UTC] No.43745113[source]▶
> generally assume the AI isn't misreading, rather that it assumes you couldn't give it the riddle correctly, but it has seen it already.

LLMs doesn't assume, its a text completer. It sees something that looks almost like a well known problem and it will complete with that well known problem, its a problem specific to being a text completer that is hard to get around.

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1. chairdoor ◴[21 Apr 25 17:09 UTC] No.43754148[source]▶
"Assume" can just be a proxy term for "text completion that contains an assumption," especially considering that we don't have enough concrete details about human cognition to know for sure that we aren't doing the same thing.