[Gigachad]

Fair, although I’d think it acceptable if the response to your prompt was “which one? I found 4”

[squeaky-clean]

It would have way more than 4 people in the search results though. GP said there's at least 4 because there's him, his wife and his kids.

Even knowing Obama is a person is a knowledge-based leap. (To us humans) it's obvious the question means Barack Obama because he's the most notable subject for that name. But how do you prevent your AI from responding that the "Obama JS library is 5 years old"

https://github.com/rgbkrk/obama

[pixl97]

If it's based on frequency of training data, the ex-president will have far more hits in the training corpus.

Now, on less talked about topics it doesn't sound any different than what happens with people

Q "How old is Tim?"

A "Which Tim are you talking about, you didn't give me crap to work with?"

[xeromal]

The answer is obviously 62 because that's how old Tim Apple is.

[mensetmanusman]

Ha, it might give an age of 7 years or so when the moniker was invented.

[lordnacho]

Isn't it a sort of cultural knowledge to understand what is meant? Ie when we say Obama we mean one specific guy who is very important but if I'm talking about Mrs Watanabe it's a generic Japanese person?