AI are dumber than ducks
- 10 Feb 2024

AI is not going to replace you soon. Here is why đ
This simple riddle is the latest joke among AI experts. It stumps most of our sophisticated GPT models. đ€đą
Here is it:
You see one group of ducks and
- one duck is behind two ducks,
- one duck is in front of two ducks,
- one duck is in the middle of two ducks. How many ducks at least are there in the group?
Seems simple, right?
đŠđŠ đŠ 3 ducks et voilĂ
Yet, Mixtral finds 4 ducks, GPT-3.5 thinks 5 ducks, Gemini Pro 6 at minimum, and "there may be more"
It's a veritable festival of errors, except for GPT-4, which apparently got it right. đŻ
This humorous highlight underscores a serious point. đ Today GPT have no reasoning capacity.
They are word machines producing illusion of reason. So while they can dazzle us with complex tasks, they fail seemingly simple others đ§
So when we worry about AI outsmarting humanity, let's remember the duck riddle.
So đŠ vs đ€: who is smarter ?
Text drafted through a chat with an AI model. Visual: Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 3.
Transformation and final editing by Jean-Paul Paoli.