Comment by cl3misch
17 hours ago
> Unfiltered answer: Quantum entanglement is a strange phenomenon where the state of one particle becomes instantly known to every other particle that can be accessed. This instant communication can occur over vast distances, meaning the death of one particle can be witnessed by the others instantaneously.
Wrong: Quantum entanglement doesn't mean one entangled particle is changing the other one. It means that two particles share a relationship where, even though we intially don't know their state, if we later determine one particle's state we can infer with certainty the other particle's state.
This has been common and popular misconception long before LLMs. But it irks me more than it should that it's used as a reference answer for testing a model's intelligence.
>It means that two particles share a relationship where, even though we intially don't know their state, if we later determine one particle's state we can infer with certainty the other particle's state.
except that's not the whole truth either. A pair of gloves in separate boxes fits your description but aren't entangled, they always have a concrete state (hidden variables).
Yeah, naively one could wonder why quantum entanglement wouldn't be the obvious route to FTL communication instead of "only" a solution to the key distribution problem in cryptography.
What you said is why.
The reference isn't intended to be interpreted as the correct answer, it's the answer given by a control model that was trained on a broader corpus.