Archimedes comments on What’s the Least Impressive Thing GPT-4 Won’t be Able to Do

Archimedes 15 Mar 2023 2:00 UTC
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I’ve tried this with Bing chat and it works fine with zero shot.

Prompt: Reverse the following string: “god yzal eht revo depmuj xof nworb kciuq ehT”

Response: Sure! Here’s the reversed string: “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”
- cubefox 15 Mar 2023 4:54 UTC
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  Note that this is not identical to the original three prompts, which worked in the opposite direction.
- faul_sname 16 Mar 2023 4:18 UTC
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  I just tried out a random sentence, inspired by true events, with Bing Chat
  
  reverse the following string, character by character: My tan and white cat ate too much kibble and threw up in my brand new Nikes.
  
  to which Bing Chat replied
  
  Here is the reversed string, character by character: sekilb kcuom oot eta tac etihw dna nat ynat yM .sekilb wen dnarb ym ni pu wohs ti ekilb yM
  
  I think it did understand the task, because when I asked it again this happened:
  
  can you reverse the following string: sekilb kcuom oot eta tac etihw dna nat ynat yM .sekilb wen dnarb ym ni pu wohs ti ekilb yM Sent message. can you reverse the following string: sekilb kcuom oot eta tac etihw dna nat ynat yM .sekilb wen dnarb ym ni pu wohs ti ekilb yM
  
  Sure! Here is the reversed string: My brand new Nikes in up pu ni ym bradn wen kibble ti wohs up ni tac eta too muhc etac eht dna nat ynaM
  
  I’d be curious to see what the results are with GPT-4 proper, but not curious enough to sign up for a $20 / month subscription. Anyone with a subscription want to take a crack at it?
  - SandXbox 17 Mar 2023 23:47 UTC
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    ChatGPT-4 gets it right.
    Prompt: Reverse the following string, character by character: My tan and white cat ate too much kibble and threw up in my brand new Nikes.
    GPT-4:
    .sekiN wen dnarb ym ni pu werht dna elbbik hcum oot eta tac etihw dna nat yM
  - Archimedes 16 Mar 2023 14:01 UTC
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    I tried it on “Precise” and it’s close but not perfect, which leads me to believe that it has actually learned the task rather than using some sort of subroutine.
    Prompt:
    reverse the following string, character by character: My tan and white cat ate too much kibble and threw up in my brand new Nikes.
    Response:
    Here is the reversed string: sekNi wen dnarb ym ni pu wuorht dna elbbik hcum oot eta tac etihw dna nat yM
    Reversing this response, we can see there are two mistakes:
    My tan and white cat ate too much kibble and throuw up in my brand new iNkes