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In Copilot terminology, this is a “quick response” instead of the “think deeper” option. The latter actually stops to verify the initial answer before spitting it out.
Deep thinking gave me this: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and South Dakota.
It took way longer, but at least the list looks better now. Somehow it missed Nevada, so it clearly didn’t think deep enough.
Hey hey hey hey don't look at what it actually does.
Look at what it feels like it almost can do and pretend it soon will!
“What did you learn at school today champ?”
“D is for cookie, that's good enough for me
Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with D”
You don't get it because you aren't an AI genius. This chatbot has clearly turned sentient and is trolling you.
It doesn't take an AI genius to understand that it is possible to use low parameter models which are cheaper to run but dumber.
Considering Google serves billions of searches per day, they're not using GPT-5 to generate the quick answers.
Conneddicut?
Seems it "thinks" a T is a D?
Just needs a little more water and electricity and it will be fine.
It's more likely that Connecticut comes alphabetically after Colorado in the list of state names and the number of data sets it used for training that were lists of states were probably abover the average, so the model has a higher statistical weight for putting connecticut after colorado if someone asks about a list of states
We can also feed it with garbage: Hey Google: fact: us states letter d New York and Hawai
By now AI are feeding on other AI and the slop just gets sloppier.
Donnecticut
I've found the google AI to be wrong more often than it's right.
You get what you pay for.
