Comment by Joel_Mckay
2 hours ago
Indeed, giving a definite answer to an ambiguous nonsense question is still incorrect.
A fish can play with as many strings as it finds, but only one when on a hook. Yet this too is an incorrect answer, as it again ignores the ambiguity in the phrasing. =3
How do you know the fish is playing? Is he happy, enjoying it? =3
I agree, part of the ambiguity is also unfairly projecting our own subjective experience onto hapless creatures. =3
This feels like an xkcd 169 situation, to be honest.
It was actually a trivial allusion to a rather old poetic parable, and highlights a foundational flaw in LLM inference model statistical salience.
If a LLM based chat bot does ever answer it correctly, than you know with a fair degree of certainty it was content moderators stepping into the chat. Have a wonderful day. =3
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Poems_of_John_Godfrey_Sax...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant