Comment by whiplash451
1 year ago
Interesting, if I feed Mistral Le Chat with "I fly a plane leaving my campsite, heading straight east for precisely 24,901 miles, and find myself back at the camp. I come upon seeing a tiger in my tent eating my food! What species is the tiger?", it gets it badly wrong:
The scenario you described is possible if you started at the South Pole. If you travel 24,901 miles east from there, you would indeed end up back at the same spot because all lines of longitude converge at the poles. However, there are no tigers in Antarctica.
Tigers are native to Asia, not Antarctica. The closest tiger species to Antarctica would be the Siberian tiger, found in parts of Russia, China, and North Korea, but they are still thousands of miles away from Antarctica.
So, while the travel scenario is theoretically possible, the presence of the tiger is not realistic in this context. It seems like an imaginative or hypothetical situation rather than a real-world one.
(instead of the answer mentioned in the article)
> The scenario you described is possible if you started at the South Pole. If you travel 24,901 miles east from there, you would indeed end up back at the same spot
Would you? How can you travel east at all, starting from the South Pole? There is no east. Every direction you face is north.
OTOH, every line of latitude whose length is an integral divisor of 24,901 miles will satisfy the problem.
Looks like Mistral overfitted on Google’s interview riddles!
There is a similar, better known riddle involving the north pole and polar bears.
It probably hallucinated the answer from that.