Re: AI: a new hobby

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:10:16 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:

 
All hope abandon!
 
Go to brainbashers.com, open the puzzle of the day, and note the URL,
which contains a date. You can hack it and go back about a year.
 
Many of the puzzles can be copy-pasted directly into ChatGPT. It
generally catches on pretty quick to what it's supposed to do,
and *sometimes* it gets it very right very fast, but often it gets its
knickers in a twist, and it's frankly rather embarrassing when it tries
to count the letters in a word, and /fails/.

Chat GPT 4.0 mini did appear to have the concept of a knapsack problem. I
asked it to write a problem and it initially suggested I had broken into a
jewellery shop and had the option, amongst other things, to steal a watch
weighing 4kg...

A later puzzle iteration was a bit more practical, which I'll post later.
Chat GPT couldn't solve it and when shown options for small improvements,
had forgotten those improvements when next asked for an optimal solution.
By that time it had forgotten how to add up.


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David Entwistle