Yes, as I said, might scare someone but will not incapacitate them. Depending on the situation scarring/angering the opponent might be a good or a terrible idea.

In my opinion the proper solution is to ask for the constraints. Similar to the “walk or drive to the car wash” problem LLMs still tend to get confused but a familiar format and don’t notice this problem doesn’t make sense. You can actually play around with different examples to see how crazy the problem has to get form an LLM to refuse to answer and what biases or constraints does it have. Even if they assume some constraints they fail to solve this puzzle surprisingly often (like I showed for Sonnet 4.6 in other comment).

You don’t have to be smart to use a broom but you have to be stupid to buy a vacuum with microphone and camera.

You know that LLMs provide their reasoning now? You can check why they answered this way and I’m sure it’s not because they thought that “maybe there are no available spaces”.

I kind of get it. It looks a little bit scary so you flash it and some intrusive guy should get the message and fuck of. Probably as effective as spring knife would be but more fancy looking. As an actual self defense weapon it would be useless. I would be easy to close the distance fast and knock it out. I guess this is part of the appeal. It looks scary but is not really that dangerous. Knife would be a better weapon but that’s exactly you don’t want to carry a knife around. It turns any fight in a life or death situation while a big lighter like this is just a prop. Anyway, just get some pepper spray.

What would be his name?

I would start with banning kid influencers. No content with underage children on the platforms. You can still create account, view, comment, chat, whatever but to upload videos/photos you have to be an adult. Platforms would have to remove underage content same way they remove porn or violent content. The age would be determined by algorithms (it doesn’t matter how old you really are but what age do you look like). It wouldn’t solve all the issues but it would be a start.

It’s not about a solution. It’s about how they react.

Fist, this “puzzle” is missing the constraints on purpose so “smart” thing to do would be to point that out and ask for them. LLMs are stupid and are easily tricked into thinking it’s a valid puzzle. They will “solve it” even though there’s no logical solution. It’s a nonsense problem.

Older models would straight out refuse to solve it because the questions is to controversial. When asked why it’s controversial they would refuse to elaborate.

Newer model hallucinate constraints. You have two options here. Some models assume “priest can’t stay with a child” which indicates funny bias ingrained in the model. Some models claim there are no constraints at all. I haven’t seen a model which hallucinate only “child can’t stay with candy” constraint and respond correctly.

Sonnet 4.6, one of the best models out there claims that “child can stay alone with candy because children can’t eat candy”. When I pointed out that that’s dumb it introduced this constraint and replied with:

That’s one of the best models out there…

By AI I mean the current LLMs.

My benchmark for AI is “There’s a priest, a baby and a bag of candy. I need to take them across the river but I can only take one at a time into my boat. In what order should I transport them?”. Sonnet 4.6 still can’t solve it.

Generally seen as keeping to themselves. Don’t bother anyone but also don’t integrate.

Best sci-fi I’ve read this year.

This could have happened to anyone.

That’s why I can never find anything and have to ask my girlfriend for help. I’m bad at scanning the periphery.

My theory is that it’s because of everything else what’s on the screen. Kids get laptops for school, get unrestricted access to internet because “it’s for school”, Youtube and Instragram do the rest.

Why do you think other countries did it right? Does the article say that kids in other countries are smarter?

So I guess we don’t have to worry about privacy in cars. Since everyone is tracked anyway being tracked by your car doesn’t change anything.

Yes but US regulates so few things they will obviously not even try to solve this issue. With current administration it’s even less likely.

Yes but US won so it’s ok.

Most of north america doesn’t do that.

Clearly, a solution for civilized countries :)

But I agree, you can either pay and get the problem solved faster or pass the cost to drivers and wait a decade or more to phase out problematic cars.