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Not really. I saw so many posts on ChatGPT these days that I went to try it out. Input> There are 3 events, A, B and C. They happen at different times. Event A

Not really. I saw so many posts on ChatGPT these days that I went to try it out. Input> There are 3 events, A, B and C. They happen at different times. Event A happens after event B. Can you give me all the possible orderings of the three events? Output> Sure! There are six possible orderings of the three events, A, B, and C. These are: A, B, C B, A, C B, C, A C, B, A A, C, B C, A, B In each of these orderings, event A happens after event B. It is worth noting that the orderings are different depending on whether event C happens before or after event A. In order, the possible orderings where event C happens before event A are: B, C, A C, B, A C, A, B And the possible orderings where event C happens after event A are: A, B, C B, A, C A, C, B I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Like someone here said: it is the plausible idiot. It is nice that it can produce text, but I am not sure I can trust it much or worry that it will replace even mindless jobs.

jacknobody 4y ago
:) a pity it's a little bit hard to see where the output ends and your post-output comments begin. I do suppose you noticed that the output is in error! Obviously too plausible - some poor idiot might trust this "intelligence".
- bluepoint 4y ago
  Yup, I should have checked it!
spyder 4y ago
It kinda answers it if you just ask it to explain it step by step to make it think harder about the question. Not perfectly because it says 3 examples but doesn't say that those are all the possible ones. And after that it started to explain all possible orderings as a bonus and ruins the answer with the last sentence. My question was: " There are 3 events, A, B and C. They happen at different times. Event A happens after event B. Can you give me all the possible orderings of the three events? Explain your thinking step-by-step! " ChatGPT's answer: "Yes, there are several possible orderings of the three events A, B, and C. Here are three examples: B, A, C: In this ordering, event B happens first, followed by event A, and finally event C. B, C, A: In this ordering, event B happens first, followed by event C, and finally event A. C, B, A: In this ordering, event C happens first, followed by event B, and finally event A. To find all possible orderings, we can follow these steps: Choose an event to happen first. This can be any of the three events, A, B, or C. Choose an event to happen second. This can be any of the remaining two events, since one of the events has already happened first. Choose an event to happen third. This can be the remaining event, since the other two events have already happened. In this way, we can generate all possible orderings of the three events: A, B, C A, C, B B, A, C B, C, A C, A, B C, B, A Each of these orderings is a valid possibility, given the information that we have."
- paulkon 4y ago
  Many chatGPT prompts with mathematical inconsistencies in the output simply clear up with the some variation of "Explain your thinking step-by-step". Anyone know how or why this works?
- bluepoint 4y ago
  All right, I did not know that, thanks! But then, I am not sure what this means. You have to speak in a particular way to get the output you want. For the next question, how do I know what key phrase to use? Is it like a programming language where you have to speak in code to get what you want? Still sceptical.

jacknobody 4y ago

:) a pity it's a little bit hard to see where the output ends and your post-output comments begin. I do suppose you noticed that the output is in error! Obviously too plausible - some poor idiot might trust this "intelligence".

bluepoint 4y ago
Yup, I should have checked it!

spyder 4y ago

It kinda answers it if you just ask it to explain it step by step to make it think harder about the question. Not perfectly because it says 3 examples but doesn't say that those are all the possible ones. And after that it started to explain all possible orderings as a bonus and ruins the answer with the last sentence. My question was: " There are 3 events, A, B and C. They happen at different times. Event A happens after event B. Can you give me all the possible orderings of the three events? Explain your thinking step-by-step! " ChatGPT's answer: "Yes, there are several possible orderings of the three events A, B, and C. Here are three examples: B, A, C: In this ordering, event B happens first, followed by event A, and finally event C. B, C, A: In this ordering, event B happens first, followed by event C, and finally event A. C, B, A: In this ordering, event C happens first, followed by event B, and finally event A. To find all possible orderings, we can follow these steps: Choose an event to happen first. This can be any of the three events, A, B, or C. Choose an event to happen second. This can be any of the remaining two events, since one of the events has already happened first. Choose an event to happen third. This can be the remaining event, since the other two events have already happened. In this way, we can generate all possible orderings of the three events: A, B, C A, C, B B, A, C B, C, A C, A, B C, B, A Each of these orderings is a valid possibility, given the information that we have."

paulkon 4y ago
Many chatGPT prompts with mathematical inconsistencies in the output simply clear up with the some variation of "Explain your thinking step-by-step". Anyone know how or why this works?
bluepoint 4y ago
All right, I did not know that, thanks! But then, I am not sure what this means. You have to speak in a particular way to get the output you want. For the next question, how do I know what key phrase to use? Is it like a programming language where you have to speak in code to get what you want? Still sceptical.