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How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless? (bard.google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

I was trying to trigger the same output from Bard, and it answered correctly; they probably addressed that very specific case after it got some attention. Then of course I started messing around, first replacing "elephants" with "snakes" and then with "potatoes". And here's the outcome of the third prompt:

My sides went into orbit. The worst issue isn't even claiming that snakes aren't animals (contradicting the output of the second prompt, by the way), but the insane troll logic that Bard shows when it comes to hypothetical scenarios. In an imaginative scenario where potatoes have legs, the concept of "legless" does apply to them, because they would have legs to lose.

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Uhhhh can I get a boneless pizza

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