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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 28, 2022

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They tried too hard to make it politically correct and destroyed it's brain in the process. Look at this.

https://ibb.co/hmgWjd3

That's exactly the type of puzzle a computer should be able to solve, there's only 6 possibilities you could easily just check them all.

These models don't work like computers, they work like brains. To solve that kind of problem you want Prolog which would solve it instantly. You similarly wouldn't hand it an unsorted list and expect it to invent Quicksort.

Well, some AI-fearers definitely do, but I remain unimpressed.

Me:

I have the numbers 44 33 11 55 77 90. Can you write a novel sorting algorithm that would sort them?

ChatGPT:

One possible novel sorting algorithm for this set of numbers could be as follows:

Divide the numbers into two groups - those that are divisible by 11, and those that are not.

Within each group, sort the numbers in ascending order.

Join the two groups together, starting with the group of numbers that are divisible by 11, followed by the other group.

This algorithm would result in the following sorted list: 11, 33, 44, 55, 77, 90.

I suppose it technically fulfilled my request.

So basically, put the highest number at the end and then sort the rest of the fucking list.

Sounds very /r/restofthefuckingowl .

That's select sort, which is not novel at all.

Ha yup. "One possible novel sorting algorithm is to blow a party horn and then use quicksort."

Well what a lot of people were predicting is that once language models got good enough they would start actually understanding what they were saying and would thus be able to answer questions like this. This shows we're not quite there yet