It’s not just a low-IQ human, though. I know some low IQ people and their primary deficiency is the ability to apply information to new situations. Where “new situation” might just be the same situation as before, but on a different day, or with a slightly different setup (eg task requires A, B1, B2, and C—usually all 4 things need to be done, but sometimes B1 is already done and you just need to do A, B2, and C—medium or high would notice and just do the 3 things, medium might also just do B1 anyway. Low IQ folx tend to do A, and then not know what to do next because it doesn’t match the pattern.)
The one test I ran with GPTchat was asking three questions (with a prompt that you are giving instructions to a silly dad who is going to do exactly what you say, but mis-interpret things if they aren’t specific):
Explain how to make a Peanut Butter Sandwitch (gave a good result to this common choice)
Explain how to add 237 and 465 (word salad with errors every time it attempted)
Explain how to start a load of laundry (was completely unable to give specific steps—it only had general platitudes like “place the sorted laundry into the washing machine.” No-where did it specify to only place one sort of sorted laundry in at a time, nor did it ever include “open the washing machine” on the list.
I would love it if you ran that exact test with those people you know & report back what happened. I’m not saying you are wrong, I just am genuinely curious. Ideally you shouldn’t do it verbally, you should do it via text chat, and then just share the transcript. No worries if you are too busy of course.
It’s not just a low-IQ human, though. I know some low IQ people and their primary deficiency is the ability to apply information to new situations. Where “new situation” might just be the same situation as before, but on a different day, or with a slightly different setup (eg task requires A, B1, B2, and C—usually all 4 things need to be done, but sometimes B1 is already done and you just need to do A, B2, and C—medium or high would notice and just do the 3 things, medium might also just do B1 anyway. Low IQ folx tend to do A, and then not know what to do next because it doesn’t match the pattern.)
The one test I ran with GPTchat was asking three questions (with a prompt that you are giving instructions to a silly dad who is going to do exactly what you say, but mis-interpret things if they aren’t specific):
Explain how to make a Peanut Butter Sandwitch (gave a good result to this common choice)
Explain how to add 237 and 465 (word salad with errors every time it attempted)
Explain how to start a load of laundry (was completely unable to give specific steps—it only had general platitudes like “place the sorted laundry into the washing machine.” No-where did it specify to only place one sort of sorted laundry in at a time, nor did it ever include “open the washing machine” on the list.
I would love it if you ran that exact test with those people you know & report back what happened. I’m not saying you are wrong, I just am genuinely curious. Ideally you shouldn’t do it verbally, you should do it via text chat, and then just share the transcript. No worries if you are too busy of course.