I find the thing incredibly smart and yet utterly useless at times.
I just spent 20 minutes getting the current iteration of ChatGPT to agree with me that a certain sentence is palindromic. Even when you make it print the unaccented characters one by one, spaces excluded, backwards and forwards, it still insists "Élu par cette crapule" isn't palindromic.
I understand how tokenization makes this difficult but come on... this doesn't feel like a difficult task for something that supposedly passes the LSATs and whatnot.
Just ask it to figure it out step-by-step and to remove accents:
GPT-4:
Figure this out step by step and check your work:
Remove the accents and tell me if this a palindrome: Élu par cette crapule
GPT-3.5 (Needs to know that removing spaces and lowercasing is okay):
Figure this out step by step and check your work:
Lowercase it and remove the accents and spaces and tell me if this a palindrome: Élu par cette crapule
I just spent 20 minutes getting the current iteration of ChatGPT to agree with me that a certain sentence is palindromic. Even when you make it print the unaccented characters one by one, spaces excluded, backwards and forwards, it still insists "Élu par cette crapule" isn't palindromic.
I understand how tokenization makes this difficult but come on... this doesn't feel like a difficult task for something that supposedly passes the LSATs and whatnot.
* French for "Elected by this piece of shit"