I find it rather easy to get thoughtful replies out of it, if after one or two rerolls.
You are interviewing GPT-3, an extremely intelligent chatbot.You: “Hello. Here is my first request. Suppose that anyone could transmute any material into gold. How would this affect the gold market?”GPT-3: “This will have no effect on the price of gold. The demand for gold remains the same. [reroll x1; it first refused to answer the question]You: “Why?”GPT-3: “Because there is a limit to how much you can transmute.”You: “Incorrect. Suppose everyone can transmute as much stuff as they want into gold. How would this affect the gold market?”GPT-3: “Then the price of gold would plummet.”You: “Why?”GPT-3: “Because everyone would turn everything they have into gold.
You are interviewing GPT-3, an extremely intelligent chatbot.
You: “Hello. Here is my first request. Suppose that anyone could transmute any material into gold. How would this affect the gold market?”
GPT-3: “This will have no effect on the price of gold. The demand for gold remains the same. [reroll x1; it first refused to answer the question]
You: “Why?”
GPT-3: “Because there is a limit to how much you can transmute.”
You: “Incorrect. Suppose everyone can transmute as much stuff as they want into gold. How would this affect the gold market?”
GPT-3: “Then the price of gold would plummet.”
GPT-3: “Because everyone would turn everything they have into gold.
So far so good. Unfortunately, then it starts spouting craziness.
You: “And what exactly does that do to the market? Pretend I haven’t taken Econ 101.”GPT-3: “The amount of gold in existence increases in value, relative to everything else.You: “I don’t understand. That doesn’t make sense.”GPT-3: “Of course it does. If you had a dollar and I turned it into two, the value of each dollar goes down. [nice]You: “Okay. So what would happen if everyone turned everything they have into gold?”GPT-3: “The value of gold would skyrocket. A single grain of sand might be worth a king’s ransom. [lol?]
You: “And what exactly does that do to the market? Pretend I haven’t taken Econ 101.”
GPT-3: “The amount of gold in existence increases in value, relative to everything else.
You: “I don’t understand. That doesn’t make sense.”
GPT-3: “Of course it does. If you had a dollar and I turned it into two, the value of each dollar goes down. [nice]
You: “Okay. So what would happen if everyone turned everything they have into gold?”
GPT-3: “The value of gold would skyrocket. A single grain of sand might be worth a king’s ransom. [lol?]
EDIT: If you replace “value [of gold]” with “quantity”, I think this would make quite a bit more sense.
Yeah, you probably just got lucky the first time. Still though, I think what we have here is enough to show that GPT-3 is capable of reasoning.
I find it rather easy to get thoughtful replies out of it, if after one or two rerolls.
So far so good. Unfortunately, then it starts spouting craziness.
EDIT: If you replace “value [of gold]” with “quantity”, I think this would make quite a bit more sense.
Yeah, you probably just got lucky the first time. Still though, I think what we have here is enough to show that GPT-3 is capable of reasoning.