Draw a millipede as a dog:

Gemini responds:

Conceptualizing the "Millipup"

https://gemini.google.com/share/b6b8c11bd32f

Draw the five legs of a dog as if the body is a pentagon

https://gemini.google.com/share/d74d9f5b4fa4

And animal legs are quite standardized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_l...

It's all about the prompt. Example:

Can you imagine a dog with five legs?

https://gemini.google.com/share/2dab67661d0e

And generally, the issue sits between the computer and the chair.

;-)

This is basically the "Rhinos are just fat unicorns" approach. Totally fine if you want to go that route but a bit goofy. You can get SOTA models to generate a 5-legged dog simply by being more specific about the placement of the fifth leg.

https://imgur.com/a/jNj98Pc

Asymmetry is as hard for AI models as it is for evolution to "prompt for" but they're getting better at it.

haha fair point, you can get the expected results with the right prompt, but I think it still reveals a general lack of true reasoning ability (or something)

Or it just shows that it tries to overcorrect the prompt which is generally a good idea in the most cases where the prompter is not intentionally asking a weird thing.

This happens all the time with humans. Imagine you're at a call center and get all sorts of weird descriptions of problems with a product: every human is expected to not expect the caller is an expert and actually will try to interpolate what they might mean by the weird wording they use

The math was beyond me. So, I asked Gemini 3 for help. I share what they replied to my many questions here:

https://gemini.google.com/share/1a6663a83898

Schrodinger and Penrose: pro. Einstein: con.

My favorite part is the debate between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President Donald Trump on Maria Strømme's interesting effort.

Nearly sixty years of coding under my belt here.

The OP proposes a valid and reasonable pattern.

Nonetheless, not all of us are so wise.

There are dozens of frustrating all-nighters and near all-nighters in my timeline.

And, dotted in and about, there are those several times when, half-asleep, you press the enter key, look up and gasp "OMG, it's working!"

>"Even for those relationships that were negatively strained, over time, the strained relationships mended," she says.

I was 54. my wife called it quits on me.

These days, my former wife and our three daughters are probably as happy and as communicative as we've ever been.

Mutually, putting our children as a high priority helped.

See

The first "blog"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger

https://firstsiteguide.com/robot-wisdom-and-jorn-barger/

https://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/

https://www.wired.com/2005/07/robot-wisdom-on-the-street/

> This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought. Most of what you remember is nothing like an approximate copy of the things you experienced in real life—even in the specific case of text, memory is not even remotely like a paraphrase of previously read words. Many of our thoughts happen in a highly abstracted and distilled form, interacting and connecting with each other as a network that simply cannot be faithfully converted into a sequence of words, however long.

Perhaps the most interesting quote in an interesting article.

Leaves me speechless or something

Browser > right click on the dot > inspect the RGB numbers

The first line on the page says

> Click the disk that's a different color. Use your eyes only!

Inspecting the color is cheating.

I commented "OMG" a couple of days ago, but I guess that was not enough text to count as a comment.

So anyway, here we go again: OMG!

OMG

John Walker the founder would grieve as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)

He was a digital hoarder sharer. See:

https://fourmilab.ch/

just nabbed his midi to csv gadgets! seems like an awesome guy!