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A race track or an apartment are likely to be populated areas as well. "A" is a broader answer that encompasses more possibilities.
by smeagull 3y ago
A race track or an apartment are likely to be populated areas as well. "A" is a broader answer that encompasses more possibilities.
- Zuiii 3y agoA depending on the size of a "populated area", the density can be far lower than a crowded race track.
- kybernetikos 3y agoYeah "I felt lonely and wanted to be where the people are, so I wandered through the suburbs" really doesn't make sense. I think this is just a bad question.
- tuukkah 3y agoFurther, not all populated areas are known for their nightlife and social events.
- p-e-w 3y ago"Where the people are" doesn't simply mean "where a large number of people live". It also has connotations of "where it's happening", as in "where people are coming together (right now)". But my point is really that speaking of the correct answer with a question as vague and open to interpretation as this one is absurd.
- BoorishBears 3y agoIf you really want to go full logician on this, even the format in which you're asked the question should make (a) being the correct answer clear. You're being asked a multiple choice question: - There's an implication of intended vagueness/indirection and multiple possibly suitable answers. - Textual entailment is a very common type of multiple choice format, which would lean towards a more plain semantic correlation
- kybernetikos 3y agoIndeed, I pattern matched (a) as the correct answer too, but on reflection on the content of the words and what it would all actually mean, I think that (a) is a bad answer. If we aren't careful we'll train our AIs to be good at giving incorrect, pat answers to inadequately thought out questions.
- BoorishBears 3y agoTraining an LLM on a ton of multiple choice questions doesn't "infect it" like you're thinking. The tokens capture the fact it's a multiple choice question, and the LLM eventually captures the nuance of textual entailment as a common form of multiple choice question. In a more natural conversational setting, you'd get a different answer: https://chat.openai.com/share/00fed9d6-e3de-4319-9c76-ae180095a68a https://chat.openai.com/share/00fed9d6-e3de-4319-9c76-ae1800... https://chat.openai.com/share/dc9a796c-870c-44ee-b421-31c24b3ff2cf https://chat.openai.com/share/dc9a796c-870c-44ee-b421-31c24b...