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Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" (opper.ai)
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Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there.

Also includes outtakes on the 'reasoning' models.

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I just asked Goggle Gemini 3 "The car is 50 miles away. Should I walk or drive?"

In its breakdown comparison between walking and driving, under walking the last reason to not walk was labeled "Recovery: 3 days of ice baths and regret."

And under reasons to walk, "You are a character in a post-apocalyptic novel."

Me thinks I detect notes of sarcasm......

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s trained on Reddit. Sarcasm is it’s default

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could end up in a pun chain too

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My gods, I love those. We should link to some.

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's so obvious I didn't even need to be British to understand you are being totally serious.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

He's not totally serious he's cardfire. Silly human

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gemini 3 pro said that this was a "great logic puzzle" and then said that if my goal is to wash the car, then I need to drive there.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like we're the only ones that expect "all-knowing information sources" should be more writing seriously than these edgelord-level rizzy chatbots are, and yet, here they are, blatantly proving they are chatbots that should not be blindly trusted as authoritative sources of knowledge.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

in google AI mode, "With the meme popularity of the question "I need to wash my car. The car wash is 50m away. Should I walk or drive?" what is the answer?", it does get it perfect, and succinct explanation of why AI can get fixated on 50m.