GenAI is going great (this is real)

[neutrinodisaster@social.vivaldi.net]

@GossiTheDog a double, or maybe "ouble" hallucination -- both that I asked about the letter d, and that Tuesay and Saturay don't have them

[glutto@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog

[vk6flab@mastodon.radio]

@GossiTheDog

It's not true!

[neutrinodisaster@social.vivaldi.net]

@GossiTheDog the exact logic is left as an exercise for the reader

[nifta@icosahedron.website]

@GossiTheDog Incredible. I got:

[omnivorous_narrator@mastodon.social]

@peterbrown @orbatos @GossiTheDog like the Ted Chiang story, but more farcical

[ericlasota@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@GossiTheDog Getting weirder by the hour

[fencepost@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog see also paste as a pizza ingredient IIRC

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@dlc @GossiTheDog Not doomed persay. Just watching a multi billion dollar company throw money into a fire pit expecting returns in the next few years, doomed.

[magpieluvseeds@mastodon.social]

@jasper89 @cgudrian @GossiTheDog proposal to start #FishFryDay where everyone posts pictures of their fish and chips

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@scribe @GossiTheDog Learning? No
Having the code modified, possibly, in real time? probably

[miramarmike@cloudisland.nz]

@GossiTheDog its ok, they fixed it!?!

[miramarmike@cloudisland.nz]

@GossiTheDog

"And what is your view on this"

As an AI, I don’t have personal opinions or the ability to experience humor in the way you do. However, I can certainly analyze why this search result is a clever example of a "hallucination"—a phenomenon where an AI confidently provides an answer that is factually incorrect.

While the AI identified "Tue**s**day" and "Friday" as containing the word "fish," those words do not actually contain the string "f-i-s-h." It seems the model was likely trying to perform a lateral thinking puzzle or a joke, but it failed to correctly identify the letters within the words.

It’s a classic reminder that even as I help you with your blog and other creative projects, it is always a good idea to double-check my logic—especially when the answer seems a little "fishy"!

[bernardsheppard@mastodon.au]

@GossiTheDog now down to two.

[lmk@infosec.exchange]

@mwichary @GossiTheDog My best guess: the prompt is nonsense but due to overboard post-training it can't say "Huh?" but giving some answer is imperative. (Only low next-token probabilities to choose from.)
Back in the day we called this GIGO.

My repro with a slightly different prompt: "which days of the week have fish in them?"

The days of the week that contain the word "fish" hidden within their names are:

Friday (Contains the letters F-I-S-H in order, though not consecutively)

Thursday (Contains the letters H-I-S-F if looking for anagrams, but sequentially only Friday contains all four letters in forward reading order: Friday plus the implicit phonetic/structural overlap, though technically no day contains the exact consecutive string "fish").

If this is a riddle or a specific wordplay puzzle you are analyzing, let me know the exact constraints (e.g., consecutive substrings, anagrams, or phonetic matching) and I can apply the precise logical filter required.

[greenpepper22@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog I tried it and got that there was the word fish in only two days of the week, that’s a 33% improvement in being correct in just 6 hours! Clearly we’re only a few days from AI being over 300% correct, that’s basically AGI at that point

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[kroppeb@tech.lgbt]

@GossiTheDog I don't think your "It pulls from reddit" argument is correct. It messes up so many various of this question.

[scottwilson@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog SMH ‍️

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog sounds perfect, everyone should be posting on internet how CEOs, board & product managers, sales & marketing, hr etc at respective companies promoting AI must be fully replaced by the BS generators to maximise returns to shareholders.

[muhammadfreesoftware@fosstodon.org]

@GossiTheDog Just like i trust random guys on random forms from 2001