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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what slopperations are funneling all their money into in 2026
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If that was true, wouldn't every AI get the answer wrong? It's actually around 50/50. The leading "reasoning" models almost always get it right, the others often don't.
It depends on what's asked. What's "around 50/50"? What is "it" that they almost always get right? I think you've bought into their marketing. It can often do math problems, that are worded properly, well. That doesn't mean it's intelligent though. It means that the statistical algorithm is useful for solving those problems. It isn't thinking. Getting correct answers isn't thought.
For the example in the OP, that is the correct answer, if correct is what you expect to follow a string that looks like this. For a statistical model, it did well. For a thinking machine (which it isn't) it's wrong. It accurately gave a string that is expected following the previous string, it just happens to not be the correct answer.
I want to say upfront that I'm not trying to defend AI here. I wouldn't be on Fuck AI if I wanted to do that. I just think it's philosophically interesting despite causing way more problems than it solves.
I copied the message from the image verbatim.
About 50% of the models I tried got it right. (Don't worry, I didn't pay the AI companies for that or give them feedback or anything.)
The question from the image.
My question was how do you then explain some models getting the question right?
It's usually the more advanced ones that get it, so it's possible that a similar enough question is in the training data somewhere and the only difference is that the advanced models are large enough to encode it. The question in the image has been around since at least 2023.
So let's try making our own question, taking a well-known trick question and subtly inverting it so it becomes a kind of double bluff.
It's hard to google, for obvious reasons, but I couldn't find anyone trying this question like I could with the question from the image. But I got similar results with the AI models.
They actually did slightly better on this one. About 60-70% got it right.
I've tried a few different types of questions, over the last few years, to see what AI gets wrong that humans get right. What I've found so far is that AI has been a lot dumber than I had expected, but humans have also been a lot dumber than I had expected.
To be honest, the gap was far wider for the humans. My theory is that COVID gave us all brain damage.