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> I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

I think no real human would ask such a question. Or if we do we maybe mean should I drive some other car than the one that is already at the car-wash?

A human would answer, "silly question ". But a human would not ask such a question.

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A human totally would, as one of those brain-teaser trick questions. Its the same kind of question as "A plane crashes right on the border between the US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?" Its the kind of question you only get right if you pay close attention. Asking an AI that is like asking a 5 year old. You're not asking to get an answer, you're asking to see if they're paying attention.

I was given to understand that attention is all you need.

That’s why we’re testing for it.

That a human would not ask such a question means it's not in the training set, so it shows how bad an LLM can be at thinking from first principles. Which, I think, is the point of such silly questions.

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