Q: I want to wash my car.
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@knowmadd to be fair one of the answers mentioned using the car if you have to carry heavy equipment, and I'd say that a car *is* heavy and it probably counts as equipment
although it has wheels, so maybe it could be pushed
(can you even push a modern car? my mental model for these things is probably stuck in the last century)
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@knowmadd gpt-oss also recommends walking. I asked if I should buy a 50m hosepipe to take with me and it rightly reminded me: "No. A 50m hosepipe is excessive for washing a car 50m from your house — you don’t need to stretch it that far. A 25m hose is sufficient and more manageable." Can't argue with 120bn in logic.
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@knowmadd That is a super intelligent AI right there.
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“I burned down a rainforest and all I got was more stupider.”
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@knowmadd this sounds like the nerd grocery shopping problem.
A: "Darling, please go shopping. Bring 2 liters of milk. If they have eggs, bring 10."
Later the nerd returns.
A: "Why did you bring so much milk?!"
B: "They had eggs. You said, I should bring 10 liters of milk if they have eggs."
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@OutOfSpace @knowmadd "For minimal environmental benefit -> walk (and then drive)"
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@knowmadd well in their defence (I'm doing what?) a good chunk of people would say the same thing. Hopefully only for a moment though, before they went 'wait a second!"
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@knowmadd It's interesting to see different "levels" of Gemini respond in different ways.
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@knowmadd – Claude is too stupid for me to bother with.
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@knowmadd DeepSeek :
"You should drive the car to the car wash because the car needs to be at the location to be washed. Walking would leave the car at home, so you wouldn't be able to wash it."(In its working out it discussed environmental issues but also pointed out they were irrelevant as the car needs to be present )
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@OutOfSpace @knowmadd "For minimal environmental benefit -> walk (and then drive)"
@Azuaron @knowmadd Yeah, as a second option. First option recommended:
For convinience -> Drive.This is what is called selective reporting. Marketing departments of pharmaceutical industry are famous for it.
My point was that deepseek recognized that the car needs to be at the car wash in the end. This is at least a little bit better than the other llms in your test. Your alt-text suggested otherwise.
I don't want to say that deepseek performed well in your test though
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@knowmadd I tried to reproduce the result with Gemini and ChatGPT. Either the AI has learned something new, or there is another reason for this. Neither fell for the trick question and even responded with irony in some cases.
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@knowmadd GLM4.7 pass the test. And nearly every other up to date thinking model too
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@knowmadd GLM4.7 pass the test. And nearly every other up to date thinking model too
@knowmadd GLM 5 gives a pretty clear answer
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@knowmadd the e2e-encrypted models at confer.to got it sort of right?:
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@weizenspreu @knowmadd Yes. Only once.
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@knowmadd I like Deepseek’s “hey just go for a walk anyway but remember to come back for the car” response
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@weizenspreu @knowmadd Yes. Only once.
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Please put this also on LinkedIn. That's the audience that needs such things as constant reminder.
