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The challenge is flawed.

I asked one of the questions from the quiz to chatgpt which the quiz claims GPT can't solve. But it did.

Prompt: Write out the word "hello" as an ascii art drawing with # and _

Output:

      _   _      _ _
     | | | |    | | |
     | |_| | ___| | | ___
     |  _  |/ _ \ | |/ _ \
     | | | |  __/ | | (_) |
     \_| |_/\___|_|_|\___/

I guess chatgpt isn't raw GPT-4, or the quiz is using some older model.

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I don't think thats a correct solution to the problem.

The prompt asked for an ascii art drawing made from the # and _ characters. But the output also uses |/\() characters (and it doesn't use a # anywhere).

Ok, but it's still acceptable by any common sense standard. Besides the challenge's output is completely off. Not just that it's using just one of the characters. It spells out something else. Which is not the case here.

> Ok, but it's still acceptable by any common sense standard.

I don’t know that it is. It’s clearly a great ascii art drawing, but I don’t think chatgpt gets full marks on the test here. It just isn’t following the prompt closely enough.

Ok I see your point. Did you look at the output in the challenge? It's very different. I wonder why? Different seeds maybe.

If someone put a gun to your head and asked you to draw hello using "#" and " ", would you use other characters like "/"?

I imagine I'd spend the next few minutes quietly pondering what sort of poor choices I made in life that lead me here and try my hardest to embrace an absurd ending to an absurd journey.

Oh wow, this suddenly became so heated! Is the gun made of # or _? Or it has to be both?

ChatGPT is (was) not good at ascii art.

Some months ago I tried to make it draw me an ascii rose and some text. I even tried providing it the ascii art for the rose and the text.

Finally I did it by hand.

BTW, in your example it's not using only # and _, it's using other ascii symbols. Depending on the criteria it could be considered wrong.

Mine drew this:

  #___#  #####  #______  #______  #####  
  #___#  #____  #______  #______  #___#  
  #####  ####__  #______  #______  #___#  
  #___#  #_____  #______  #______  #___#  
  #___#  #####   #######  #######  #####

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