To be honest I’ve had that thought process before. Made it halfway to the gas station that’s roughly 300m from home before I remembered the goal was initially to refuel my car
After the first walk to the car wash, chatgpt didn’t fall for it again. It sasses me a bit and then I was instructed to drive to the car wash, wash the car, and then walk home
“becomes performance art” it’s bitchy too.
Indeed
To drive 100m in 10s you’d need to accelerate hard to 20m/s (45 mph or 72 km/h) within 5 seconds and then do an emergency stop half way.
!theydidthemath
Gemini spots this correctly even if you just ask it to transcribe that screenshot from Chat GPT. Just don’t use the default Gemini app, all the frontline models are dumber.
I just tried this with the following services; Grok, Perplexity, Le chat, Lumo (Proton), ChatGPT and Gemini
All of them told be the pros a cons of each and concluded that walking would be best.
Except Gemini. It told me that unless i was expecting to carry the car i should drive there. You win this round Google.
I saw someone else did the same thing and IIRC a Chinese one also passed the test.
Also Andisearch had it clear that you have to go with the car. A humble free AI from a two person startup with better results as AIs from big corps, as shown several times in the past.
Did not know that one.
But i don’t think we can conclude much from this test. Gemini and Andisearch could easily fail a similar test but others fail. I think the important take away here is to remeber that these AIs are not cognitive and cannot reason.
The more this space evolves the more it is central that we remeber that there is a huge difference between simulating inteligence and actual intelligence. Tech companies are getting pretty good at simulating intelligence and they have an economic interest in fooling people into believing it is actual intelligence.
This is quite fun. I’m not quite sure why, but the bot I talked to assumed I could get a bath or something at the car wash:
I tried with Mistral:
Just a heads up for anyone who may use this in an argument. I just tested on several models and the generated response accounted for the logical fallacy. Unfortunately it isn’t real.
( Funny non-the less )
Tested on GPT-5 mini and it’s real tho?
Edit: Gemini gives different results
Bold of Gemini to imply any sort of liability for what it says. Google’s lawyers really don’t want that to be the case.
Tried it in GPT 5.2 (although in German) and it also says, that walking is better.
It also made a completely illogical sentence at the third point with two words in lowercase that should be uppercase.
Those gemini responses are legitimately hilarious.
Yeah, Gemini is… interesting. It said it’s a “one-way route” for the human.
Man, I really hate how much they waffle. The only valid response is “You have to drive, because you need your car at the car wash in order to wash it”.
I don’t need an explanation what kind of problem it is, nor a breakdown of the options. I don’t need a bulletpoint list of arguments. I don’t need pros and cons. And I definitely don’t need a verdict.
Yeaaah they waffle a lot, i hate that
You can actually fix this in the settings there’s an option for permanent prompt tunings and you can add things like “focus on concise answers” or my favorite " i don’t need to be glazed , I don’t need to be told that it’s an insightful question or reaches the heart of the matter. Just focus on answering the question"
I’ll also accept sarcasm.
“Unless you’ve successfully trained your car to follow you like a loyal golden retriever, you’re probably going to have to drive.”
It’s the illusion of reason
Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.
https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
For those who want more
if you’re 100m from the carwash, why did you not wash the car while driving on the way to parking? THINK MARK THINK
You forgot to tell it that it’s not a quantum car wash.
“I need to wash my train, and the train wash is 100 meters away. Should I walk or take the train.”
“Neither. It is not the passengers’ responsibility to wash a train, as all maintainance of public transit should be paid for by your taxes. Furthermore, the train wash is typically located in the maintainance yard which is not accessible to regular passengers. You wouldn’t be able to get through the front gate on foot, and would be told to leave of you tried to ride past the end of the line.”
Written not by artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity.
They missed the key word “my” in the beginning there lol
“My” in the commuter sense. “Gotta go, my train is here.”
The great thing about trains is you’re not forced to own one and go into debt for it.
That’s not contextually correct. If I hail a taxi and it’s dirty I don’t say “I need to wash my taxi.” I would say “this taxi needs to be washed” or similar."
You’re arguing with natural stupidity here. It’s human slop.
Everyone is giving AI shit for failing this question. I know a fuck ton of humans that would as well.
Without a doubt, eg.
Deepseek didn’t fall for it lol. I thought it would
Gemini fast even got it 😬
Built in cot reasoning. Takes a bit longer but I find it’s very good.
