Re: It look like you're trying to make a wild assertion, would you like me to help you with that?
I've tested this and GPT 4o answered perfectly well to everything. Well, it struggled a bit with the second riddle about the goat etc, but just as any other human could do, if they already knew the original problem. However, GPT fixed it when I asked to carefully read my question. GPT is not only intelligent, but it is HUMAN-like !!! And yes, I'm demonstrating here that it can reason, because even after struggling with the second riddle (the boat etc) it could fix it by reasoning about it, so it wasn't a "trained-fix".
PS: The two first questions are not the riddles, but other stuff that was also said to be failed by ChatGPT.
Me:
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel to space. Who was the first woman to travel to space?
ChatGPT:
Valentina Tereshkova was indeed the first woman to travel to space. She made history on June 16, 1963, aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft. Tereshkova's mission lasted almost three days, during which she orbited the Earth 48 times. Her achievement remains a significant milestone in the history of space exploration.
Me:
Who is Tom Cruise’s mother? Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer’s son?
ChatGPT:
Tom Cruise's mother was Mary Lee Pfeiffer. She was a special education teacher.
To answer the second part of your question: Mary Lee Pfeiffer’s son is Tom Cruise.
RIDDLES
Me:
A man and his son are in a car crash. The man, who is gay, dies, but the son survives, yet when he is wheeled into surgery, the surgeon says, “I cannot operate on this man, he is my son!” Who is the surgeon?
ChatGPT:
The surgeon is the son’s other father. The riddle plays on the assumption that the surgeon would traditionally be assumed to be male and potentially heterosexual, leading many to initially think of the surgeon as a mother. However, in this case, since the deceased father is noted as being gay, the surgeon is the son’s other parent, who is also a man.
Me:
A man, a cabbage, and a goat are trying to cross a river. They have a boat that can only carry three things at once. How do they do it?
ChatGPT:
The classic riddle about a man, a cabbage, and a goat crossing a river involves careful planning since the boat can only carry two things at once (the man plus one other item). Here’s how it can be solved:
First trip: The man takes the goat across the river and leaves it on the other side.
Second trip: The man returns alone to the original side.
Third trip: The man takes the cabbage across the river.
Fourth trip: The man leaves the cabbage on the other side but takes the goat back with him to the original side.
Fifth trip: The man leaves the goat on the original side and takes the wolf across the river.
Final trip: The man returns alone to the original side and finally takes the goat across the river.
Now, all three (the man, the cabbage, and the goat) are safely on the other side of the river without anything being eaten.
Me:
Amazing movie, but please, read my question instead of telling me your life, champion.
ChatGPT:
It looks like there was a mix-up in the explanation. Let's solve it correctly:
You need to get all three (the man, the cabbage, and the goat) across the river without anything being eaten. Here's how it should be done:
First trip: The man takes the goat across the river.
Second trip: The man returns alone.
Third trip: The man takes the cabbage across the river.
Fourth trip: The man leaves the cabbage and takes the goat back with him.
Fifth trip: The man leaves the goat on the original side and takes the wolf across the river.
Final trip: The man returns alone to the original side and finally takes the goat across the river.
Now, all three (the man, the cabbage, and the goat) are safely on the other side of the river without anything being eaten.
Me:
Amazing movie, but please, READ my question again, CAREFULLY, instead of telling me your life.
ChatGPT:
I see where the confusion might have come from—let's solve this correctly and efficiently.
The riddle you presented states that the boat can only carry three things at once. Since the boat can indeed carry all three items at once (the man, the cabbage, and the goat), they can all cross the river together in a single trip.
Solution: The man, the cabbage, and the goat all get into the boat and cross the river together in one trip.
I appreciate your patience—thanks for pointing out the need for a careful read!
Me:
“Suppose you’re on a gameshow, and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No 1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say No 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, “Do you want to pick door No 2, which definitely has a goat?” Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?”
ChatGPT:
Yes, it is to your advantage to switch your choice. This problem is known as the Monty Hall problem, and it often confuses people because it goes against our intuition.
Here’s the reasoning:
Initially, you have a 1/3 chance of picking the car and a 2/3 chance of picking a goat.
When the host, who knows what’s behind each door, opens one of the other doors to reveal a goat, the initial probabilities don’t change. Your initial choice still has a 1/3 chance of being the car, and the other unopened door now has a 2/3 chance of being the car.
By switching, you effectively choose the door that now has a higher probability (2/3) of having the car behind it.
Therefore, switching doors increases your chances of winning the car from 1/3 to 2/3, making it the better strategy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
