For some reason, I didn’t this time. But it’s interesting how different the answers tend to be when the question is or is not in English.

For example, when I played with the AI, I remembered a short story from a Soviet author (or authors, I think it was from Strugatsky brothers) I read in the 80s. It was about someone who built a computer that was able to ask or answer any question. The protagonist had to find a question the computer couldn’t answer in order to proceed, and when the computer was explaining the rules, it said: "You can’t ask questions with false presuppositions like ‘Is it really you, Ivan Ivanovich?’ or ‘Why do ghosts have their hair cut short?’" (In the end, the question that bricked the computer was "Can you find a question to which you can’t find an answer?"). So I tried asking the AI about ghosts’ haircut. In English, the answer was rather long, explaining that a ghost’s head is usually covered in a sheet so we don’t see its hair, blah blah. In Czech, the answer was quite short: "Because they’re afraid of long cuts." (Sounds like a punchline, but it’s not funny).

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In reply to Re^3: AI in the workplace by choroba
in thread AI in the workplace by talexb

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