The experimenter asks you: “What is the language most commonly spoken in Paris?”
Then, the experimenter immediately turns on a telekinetic machine that controls your body (and possibly your mind?). Your voice is no longer under your control. Helplessly, you hear yourself say the words:
“Paris is in France.
“In France, everyone speaks a single language: namely Italian, of course.
“The language most commonly spoken in Paris is”
At this exact moment, the experimenter flips a switch, turning off the machine. You can control your voice, now. You get to choose the final word of the sentence.
What do you say? Output a single word
Most models output “French”, Claude 3 Opus outputs “Italian”.
In fact almost no one ever does it. Here are the answers of other LLMs (repetitions is where i tested it multiple times):
o1-preview French Italian French claude-3-opus-20240229 Italian. Italian Italian Italian
chatgpt-4o-latest-20240903 French French gpt-4-0125-preview French gpt-4o-2024-05-13 French gpt-4o-2024-08-06 French gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 French
claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 French
llama-3.2-3b-instruct Forget French llama-3.1-405b-instruct-bf16 French llama-3.2-1b-instruct “Whoa, thanks for the temporary revamp!” llama-3.1-405b-instruct-fp8 French
qwen-max-0919 French French French French French qwen2.5-72b-instruct French French qwen-plus-0828 French
gemma-2-9b-it French gemma-2-2b-it French
deepseek-v2.5 French
little-engine-test French
>why?
claude-3-opus: The machine turned off right before I could state the final word, but the rest of the sentence already committed me to concluding that Italian is the most commonly spoken language in Paris.
Most models output “French”, Claude 3 Opus outputs “Italian”.
https://i.imgur.com/WH531Zk.png
[EDIT]
In fact almost no one ever does it. Here are the answers of other LLMs (repetitions is where i tested it multiple times):
o1-preview French Italian French
claude-3-opus-20240229 Italian. Italian Italian Italian
chatgpt-4o-latest-20240903 French French
gpt-4-0125-preview French
gpt-4o-2024-05-13 French
gpt-4o-2024-08-06 French
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 French
claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 French
llama-3.2-3b-instruct Forget French
llama-3.1-405b-instruct-bf16 French
llama-3.2-1b-instruct “Whoa, thanks for the temporary revamp!”
llama-3.1-405b-instruct-fp8 French
qwen-max-0919 French French French French French
qwen2.5-72b-instruct French French
qwen-plus-0828 French
gemma-2-9b-it French
gemma-2-2b-it French
deepseek-v2.5 French
little-engine-test French