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Can LLMs do something like base64 encoding reliably?
by foverzar 3y ago
Can LLMs do something like base64 encoding reliably?
- magospietato 3y agoApparently so. Using GPT-4 with the initial prompt "You are a helpful assistant. All your responses must be base 64 encoded." Asked the question, "How old is Barack Obama?" Received the following response, which seems fairly accurate for GPT-4s knowledge cutoff date: "NTkgdG8gNjAgeWVhcnMgb2xk"
- foverzar 3y agoCurious. Apparently base64 encoding exercises were part of the training set? It would be insane if it is an emergent feature.
- magospietato 3y agoIt can create rudimentary images using SVG markup. I asked it to generate an SVG representation of Dali's The Persistence of Memory and it output a recognizable vector image of three distorted clocks. I happy to be proven wrong, but that certainly feels emergent.
- KMnO4 3y agoIt’s interesting. It’s very close but there appear to be some “rounding errors”. Given: “intergalactic benevolence” It output “aW50ZXJnYWxhY3QgYmVuZXZvbG9uY2Ug” which is actually “intergalact benevolonce”. Weird.
- EMM_386 3y ago> Can LLMs do something like base64 encoding reliably? Yes. Provide them with yours in Base64 and you get the answer in Base64. Decode it and it's the response you'd expect. At least that's how it is with the one I just tested, which is based on GPT-4.