ok I believe it may not have been intended as a trick but I think it is. As a human, I'd have assumed you meant the trickier balancing scenario i.e. the plank and barrel on its side.
The question you quoted ("Suggest a stable way of stacking a laptop, a book, 4 wine classes, a wine bottle and an orange") I would consider much fairer and cgpt3.5 gives a perfectly "reasonable" answer:
I generally agree with what you're saying and the first half of your answer makes perfect sense but I think the second is unfair (i.e. "[is it] easier to balance a barrel on a plank or a plank on a barrel"). It's a trick question and "it" tried to answer in good faith.
If you were to ask the same question of a real person and they replied with the exact same answer you could not conclude that person was not capable of "actual reasoning". It's a bit of witch-hunt question set to give you the conclusion you want.
I'd agree that providers are ceding too much control to Google for short-term wins, maybe without even realising the power they're handing over to Google.
Google is quietly inserting themselves between the customer and the business in all sorts of industries. They're not fully utilising that power which only makes them a benevolent (for now) dictator.
Agree it's incalculable, I don't mean that in the "it's too big of a number" sort of way but in the "we can't possibly know" kind of way:
1) The scale and depth of the disruption makes it impractical to figure in any kind of accurate way and
2) The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals that nay spiral out themselves (butterfly effect style) e.g. some retailer may have lost a customer who went elsewhere, some supplier may have lost a retailer who went elsewhere, etc
> Btw, anyone who lets FB that close to their eyeballs is a stone cold moron at this point. They couldn’t be trusted to run an online photo album, giving them the ability to actually control your sense of reality is nightmarishly awful.
This is a bizarre couple of sentences. I don't think you understand the technology _at all_.
Firstly, it doesn't really matter how close the screen is to your eyes. Try moving your phone closer to your face or do you trust the app that you're about to let your eyes get closer to?
Secondly, it doesn't have the ability to control your sense of reality. At least, not any more than seeing a movie in a cinema does.
The thing is, I actually agree with your second sentence but only in the context of their social media platforms i.e. silently building echo chambers around users, experiments with shaping of user's emotional state and political opinions, etc.
The question you quoted ("Suggest a stable way of stacking a laptop, a book, 4 wine classes, a wine bottle and an orange") I would consider much fairer and cgpt3.5 gives a perfectly "reasonable" answer:
https://chat.openai.com/share/fdf62be7-5cb2-4088-9131-40e089...