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Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" (opper.ai)
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Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there.

Also includes outtakes on the 'reasoning' models.

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[–] 168 points 6 months ago (57 children)

Very interesting that only 71% of humans got it right.

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  • [–] 152 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    I mean, I've been saying this since LLMs were released.

    We finally built a computer that is as unreliable and irrational as humans... which shouldn't be considered a good thing.

    I'm under no illusion that LLMs are "thinking" in the same way that humans do, but god damn if they aren't almost exactly as erratic and irrational as the hairless apes whose thoughts they're trained on.

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, the article cites that as a control, but it's not at all surprising since "humanity by survey consensus" is accurate to how LLM weighting trained on random human outputs works.

    It's impressive up to a point, but you wouldn't exactly want your answers to complex math operations or other specialized areas to track layperson human survey responses.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not afraid to say that it took me a sec. My brain went "short distance. Walk or drive?" and skipped over the car wash bit at first. Then I laughed because I quickly realized the idiocy. :shrug:

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Me too, at first I was like "I don't want to walk 50 meters" then I was thinking "50 meters away from me or the car? And where is the car?" I didn't get it until I read the rest of the article...

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Maybe 29% of people can't imagine owning their own car, so they assumed the would be going there to wash someone elses car

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