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cm2187today at 7:57 AM3 repliesview on HN

What is the version used by the free chatgpt now? (https://chatgpt.com/)

> Since the car wash is only 50 meters away (about 55 yards), you should walk.

> Here’s why:

> - It’ll take less than a minute.

> - No fuel wasted.

> - Better for the environment.

> - You avoid the irony of driving your dirty car 50 meters just to wash it.

the last bullet point is amusing, it understands you intend to wash the car you drive but still suggests not bringing it.


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deauxtoday at 8:14 AM

By default for this kind of short question it will probably just route to mini, or at least zero thinking. For free users they'll have tuned their "routing" so that it only adds thinking for a very small % of queries, to save money. If any at all.

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mytailorisrichtoday at 9:26 AM

I think this shows that LLMs do NOT 'understand' anything.

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jibaltoday at 9:32 AM

> You avoid the irony of driving your dirty car 50 meters just to wash it.

The LLM has very much mixed its signals -- there's nothing at all ironic about that. There are cases where it's ironic to drive a car 50 meters just to do X but that definitely isn't one of them. I asked Claude for examples; it struggled with it but eventually came up with "The irony of driving your car 50 meters just to attend a 'walkable neighborhoods' advocacy meeting."

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