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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

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Retr0id · 1790880368 · focus · HN ↗
Heh, there's one of mine: <a href="https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/?c=39727943" rel="nofollow">https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/?c=39727943
"GPT-4 looks at original ASCII art of a foot, not copied from the web, and says it is a foot."
The vote is currently 64% yes, 18% no.
Just now I asked Opus 5.5 to generate an ASCII art foot, and it did a passable job. It's not great, but it's a foot. Then I pasted it into ChatGPT (whatever they're serving to the free tier by default, which seems to be 5.6 Luna), and it said it was a "train/locomotive": <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6abeaa39-cc80-83ed-851f-29370db08964" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/6abeaa39-cc80-83ed-851f-29370db089...
Maybe it's Opus's fault for drawing a bad foot but I think it's fair to say LLMs are still pretty bad at ASCII art (without additional tool calling etc).
1. ben_w · 1790881113 · focus · HN ↗
  Mm, I kina agree with the AI on this one:
  (_)(_)(_) represents the wheels
  They do look rather wheel-like; I have to assume you see them as toes though?
  It's like the duck-bunny picture to me. If I focus on the "wheels", I see a steam train locomotive (but perhaps I'm only seeing that because I read your comment?); if I look at the ankle I see a foot.

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