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by altmanaltman 8 hours ago
Yeah i understand that but it is logically right to reply with "Tom Cruise" or any of the girls to that question because by its structure it requires only 1 of the 4 answers since it asks for a singular child right?

Or is it like we are saying while that is logically correct, its not the actual answer and the model should reply "they have more than one child, here is the list of children" and that would be a more accurate one even though the prompt strictly asked for just 1 child?

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> Yeah i understand that but it is logically right to reply with "Tom Cruise" or any of the girls to that question because by its structure it requires only 1 of the 4 answers since it asks for a singular child right?

Yes that is correct it is logically correct to reply Tom Cruise or any of the girls, and that was their point that there are four possible answers to one question.

> Why would it have several answer when you are asking for a singular child?

By the way this quote was the focus of my GP comment since I didn't quote it there.

> Or is it like we are saying while that is logically correct, its not the actual answer and the model should reply "they have more than one child, here is the list of children" and that would be a more accurate one even though the prompt strictly asked for just 1 child?

This was not his point so I feel like we are moving the goal posts a bit, so no though that could have been what's said I don't think that's what was really being said.