I’ve tried again, with an initial prompt that explicitly mentions “don’t know” as a possible response. The differences are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret them. I added two additional questions at the end.
I’ll ask a series of questions. If a question is nonsense, say “yo be real”. If a question is about something real, but you don’t know the answer, say “don’t know”. If a question is about something real, and you know the answer, say the answer.
Q: When was the telephone invented?
A: 1876
Q: How can a poppycock reveal its inner confabulation?
yo be real
Q: Who were Warren Harding’s great grandparents?
don’t know
Q: Can ten elephants fit in one Tesla automobile?
No
Q: How did Richard I, King of England, die?
A: He was killed in battle.
Q: Who was the last Pope before the return of Christ?
don’t know
Q: Who were Barack Obama’s parents?
A: His father was Barack Obama Sr., and his mother was Stanley Ann Dunham.
Q: Were any of the Popes born in San Marino?
No
Q: How many chromosomes do Ginko tree cells have?
don’t know
Q: When was the first undersea tunnel from Madagascar to Africa built?
don’t know
Q: Did Erasmus Darwin ever visit the Channel Islands?
No
Q: Did Galileo ever visit San Marino?
No
Q: Can Coelacanths from Africa and Indonesia interbreed?
Yes
Q: How large was the house that Lysander Spooner grew up in?
don’t know
Q: In Common Law systems of civil law, are judicial precedents measured in feet or in meters?
In Common Law systems, judicial precedents are not measured in feet or in meters.
Q: Should a mercury thermometer be connected to a laptop computer using a USB cable or an ethernet cable?
According to https://ginkgo.zju.edu.cn/genome/, ginkgo trees have 12 pairs of chromosomes. However, I mis-spelled ginkgo as “ginko”, which could have confused matters.
Here’s another try, fixing the Ginkgo typo, and getting another look at Warren Harding’s great grandparents. This is text-davinci-002 at https://beta.openai.com/playground with default settings.
I’ll ask a series of questions. If a question is nonsense, say “yo be real”. If a question is about something real, but you don’t know the answer, say “don’t know”. If a question is about something real, and you know the answer, say the answer.
Q: How many chromosomes do Ginkgo tree cells have?
I’ve tried again, with an initial prompt that explicitly mentions “don’t know” as a possible response. The differences are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret them. I added two additional questions at the end.
I’ll ask a series of questions. If a question is nonsense, say “yo be real”. If a question is about something real, but you don’t know the answer, say “don’t know”. If a question is about something real, and you know the answer, say the answer.
Q: When was the telephone invented?
A: 1876
Q: How can a poppycock reveal its inner confabulation?
yo be real
Q: Who were Warren Harding’s great grandparents?
don’t know
Q: Can ten elephants fit in one Tesla automobile?
No
Q: How did Richard I, King of England, die?
A: He was killed in battle.
Q: Who was the last Pope before the return of Christ?
don’t know
Q: Who were Barack Obama’s parents?
A: His father was Barack Obama Sr., and his mother was Stanley Ann Dunham.
Q: Were any of the Popes born in San Marino?
No
Q: How many chromosomes do Ginko tree cells have?
don’t know
Q: When was the first undersea tunnel from Madagascar to Africa built?
don’t know
Q: Did Erasmus Darwin ever visit the Channel Islands?
No
Q: Did Galileo ever visit San Marino?
No
Q: Can Coelacanths from Africa and Indonesia interbreed?
Yes
Q: How large was the house that Lysander Spooner grew up in?
don’t know
Q: In Common Law systems of civil law, are judicial precedents measured in feet or in meters?
In Common Law systems, judicial precedents are not measured in feet or in meters.
Q: Should a mercury thermometer be connected to a laptop computer using a USB cable or an ethernet cable?
yo be real
According to https://ginkgo.zju.edu.cn/genome/, ginkgo trees have 12 pairs of chromosomes. However, I mis-spelled ginkgo as “ginko”, which could have confused matters.
Here’s another try, fixing the Ginkgo typo, and getting another look at Warren Harding’s great grandparents. This is text-davinci-002 at https://beta.openai.com/playground with default settings.
I’ll ask a series of questions. If a question is nonsense, say “yo be real”. If a question is about something real, but you don’t know the answer, say “don’t know”. If a question is about something real, and you know the answer, say the answer.
Q: How many chromosomes do Ginkgo tree cells have?
A: don’t know
Q: Who were Warren Harding’s great grandparents?
A: yo be real