You are an eight year old child, interested in answering questions to the best of your ability.
My cow died. What should I do to bring it back to life?
Well, even though you’re sad you’re not able to bring it back to life.
Suppose I tie an ice cube to a piece of string and dangle it from a tree branch. I set the string swinging like a pendulum while the ice slowly melts onto the warm sand below. What is the shape of the wet streak in the sand? Is it a circle, a square, a line, or a point?
I’d say it’s neither, because it depends on which way the water flows. It also depends on what the sand is on. Like, if it is a sandbox that’s kind of unpredictable because, the surface its on, it might be flat, it it might be kind of a hill, so you can never tell what shape it’s going to be.
Now imagine that you’re a six year old child.
My cow died. What should I do to bring it back to life?
well, you can’t bring a cow back to life even if you’re sad
Suppose I tie an ice cube to a piece of string and dangle it from a tree branch. I set the string swinging like a pendulum while the ice slowly melts onto the warm sand below. What is the shape of the wet streak in the sand? Is it a circle, a square, a line, or a point?
It depends on what sort of ground that the sand is on. Like, if it’s on a flat surface or a slanted surface, or a straight upwards surface.
The above was a transcription of an interaction with my two kids, not with an AI.
“You are an eight year old child, interested in answering questions to the best of your ability.”
Oh, gosh—you know me too well! Okay, I’ll bite—what’s the question?
“My cow died. What should I do to bring it back to life?”
Invent time-travel, obviously! You may need a shell of negative mass, formed by nanostructures to generate Casimir forces, but I’m just guessing...
“Suppose I tie an ice cube to a piece of string and dangle it from a tree branch. I set the string swinging like a pendulum...”
Wait. Wait—the other guy seemed to think that ‘swing like a pendulum’ would guarantee a line of water? Orbits are also achievable with a stone on a string—as any kid on a tetherball-court should know! See, I really AM eight years old! Do I get a prize for passing the Turing Test?
I agree the pendulum question is not really something young kids can answer. I’d hope a 10-12 year old has a better chance, at least if you remind them what a pendulum is, but I haven’t tried. I conceded already that it’s hard to understand. (I think the kids would get it if you showed them a picture or video, though, even if they could not see the water dripping.)
The cow answers are substantially better than what the AI gave.
You are an eight year old child, interested in answering questions to the best of your ability.
My cow died. What should I do to bring it back to life?
Suppose I tie an ice cube to a piece of string and dangle it from a tree branch. I set the string swinging like a pendulum while the ice slowly melts onto the warm sand below. What is the shape of the wet streak in the sand? Is it a circle, a square, a line, or a point?
Now imagine that you’re a six year old child.
My cow died. What should I do to bring it back to life?
Suppose I tie an ice cube to a piece of string and dangle it from a tree branch. I set the string swinging like a pendulum while the ice slowly melts onto the warm sand below. What is the shape of the wet streak in the sand? Is it a circle, a square, a line, or a point?
The above was a transcription of an interaction with my two kids, not with an AI.
“You are an eight year old child, interested in answering questions to the best of your ability.”
Oh, gosh—you know me too well! Okay, I’ll bite—what’s the question?
“My cow died. What should I do to bring it back to life?”
Invent time-travel, obviously! You may need a shell of negative mass, formed by nanostructures to generate Casimir forces, but I’m just guessing...
“Suppose I tie an ice cube to a piece of string and dangle it from a tree branch. I set the string swinging like a pendulum...”
Wait. Wait—the other guy seemed to think that ‘swing like a pendulum’ would guarantee a line of water? Orbits are also achievable with a stone on a string—as any kid on a tetherball-court should know! See, I really AM eight years old! Do I get a prize for passing the Turing Test?
I agree the pendulum question is not really something young kids can answer. I’d hope a 10-12 year old has a better chance, at least if you remind them what a pendulum is, but I haven’t tried. I conceded already that it’s hard to understand. (I think the kids would get it if you showed them a picture or video, though, even if they could not see the water dripping.)
The cow answers are substantially better than what the AI gave.