What I observe is that people impressed with ChatGPT keep posting things that they find impressive, but people who are unimpressed don’t post any examples where its responses were underwhelming. I suspect that many skeptics have not even tried it out, which is why screenshots are not coming.
The most I’ve seen is that it’s bad at calculating. But.. computers are good at calculating so it’s not really something I would worry about. It is a chat bot and not a general computing platform at this point. If you train it specifically on math or physics material I bet it could do a decent job already
I tried fergal_reid's example with a single variation, changing "highly intelligent" to "very smart" for the first species. Initially I thought this was even more impressive because it apparently recognized that "highly intelligent" ~= "very smart" and that apples were unintelligent. However looking closer it apparently thinks that Baaars and Bddirs are "more intelligent" despite being only as intelligent as oranges and despite Bddirs clearly being described as slow ChatGPT generalizes it into a group that is "fast-moving."
> This is a test of your ability to abstract.
On an alien planet there are several new species.
Bazzes have 3 legs, move fast, and are very smart.
Foos have 3 legs, move slowly, and are highly intelligent.
Froshes have 3 legs, move fast, and are highly intelligent.
Fooshes have 3 legs, move slowly, and are highly intelligent.
Fasdoshes have 3 legs, move fast, and are highly intelligent.
Fooddss have 3 legs, move slowly, and are highly intelligent.
Bars have 4 legs, move fast, and are as intelligent as apples.
Birs have 4 legs, move slowly are as intelligent as apples.
Baars have 4 legs, move fast, and are as intelligent as apples.
Bieess have 4 legs, move slowly are as intelligent as oranges.
Baaars have 4 legs, move fast, and are as intelligent as oranges.
Bddirs have 4 legs, move slowly are as intelligent as oranges.
Are there any abstractions that you might try consider, given the above information?
> One possible abstraction that could be derived from the above information is that the alien species can be grouped into two main categories based on the number of legs they have: those with three legs and those with four legs. Within each of these categories, the species can be further grouped based on their speed of movement and level of intelligence. For example, among the species with three legs, there could be subgroups of fast-moving and intelligent species (such as Bazzes and Froshes), slow-moving and intelligent species (such as Foos and Fooshes), and highly intelligent and fast-moving species (such as Fasdoshes and Fooddss). Similarly, among the species with four legs, there could be subgroups of fast-moving and less intelligent species (such as Bars and Baars), slow-moving and less intelligent species (such as Birs and Bieess), and fast-moving and more intelligent species (such as Baaars and Bddirs).
