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by 2-718-281-828 947 days ago
the correct answer is 14. there is no logic/linguistic/semantic reason why "he didn't see a purple unicorn" should refer to the purple unicorn that he (according to your statement) did see. "he saw a red ball, but he didn't see one ball: a red one. how many balls did he see?". also regarding the green one ... there is no _logical_ reason why a "magical" frog should be green ... one can debate long about your question but a semantically sound interpretation implies: the frog saw 14 unicorns and the frog is not green. anything else falls apart because if the frog is green then how could he have seen a green uni? which is what you wrote for context.
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Do you disagree with my claim that GPT-4 can perform some sort of basic reasoning about puzzles that aren't in it's training data?