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by gavinhoward 1179 days ago
My bad. I would have if I hadn't gotten mixed up on the shorter vs taller. You know this too.

And GPT4 didn't solve it correctly. It's a probability, not a certainty, that the shortest person will step on more bugs.

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Sure, you would have got it right if you didn't get it wrong.

At the very least, this should be evidence that the problem wasn't a totally-trivial easy pre-kintergarden level problem though, and it did manage to correctly solve it.

It required understanding new axioms (smaller = bigger feet) and infering that people with bigger feet would crush more bugs without this being mentioned in the challenge.

Your dismissal that the AI messed up because it didn't phrase the correct answer back in the way you liked is a little harsh IMO, as the AI's explanation does make it clear it is basing it on likelihoods ("the person with the biggest feet would be more likely...").

That mix up must be the human touch you’ve spoken so highly of.