alt Hacker NewsI think part of the failure is that it has this helpful assistant personality that's a bit too eager to give you the benefit of the doubt. It tries to interpret your prompt as reasonable if it can. It can interpret it as you just wanting to check if there's a queue.
Speculatively, it's falling for the trick question partly for the same reason a human might, but this tendency is pushing it to fail more.
It’s just not intelligent or reasoning, and this sort of question exposes that more clearly.
Surely anyone who has used these tools is familiar with the sometimes insane things they try to do (deleting tests, incorrect code, changing the wrong files etc etc). They get amazingly far by predicting the most likely response and having a large corpus but it has become very clear that this approach has significant limitations and is not general AI, nor in my view will it lead to it. There is no model of the world here but rather a model of words in the corpus - for many simple tasks that have been documented that is enough but it is not reasoning.
I don’t really understand why this is so hard to accept.