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0 pointsarmchairhacker2y ago0 comments

Stagi isn't a word (unless you count Lojban). Gagi isn't a word unless you could Filipino slang.

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ksaj2y ago

Could you not have at least Googled the word before speaking against it?

https://www.google.com/search?q=stagi

There are a lot of genuine hits for stagi.

omneity2y ago

those are either family or brand names. I don’t see it used as a common word in any of the results.

ksaj2y ago

Proper nouns are words. That answers the prompt, right? There was no mention of "common" in the prompt. If there was, the list of words I got with the same prompt on ChatGPT would have been a lot shorter.

mejutoco2y ago

To be fair the question did not specify the language and included a disclaimer about it.

ksaj2y ago

Even if you don't consider an Italian word as a word: It's a last name. It's a brand name. It is several companies' name.

It belongs in the list just fine.

littlestymaar2y ago

Then the word rhamanagagi (which I just made up) is a word that would technically belong to the list just fine, it definitely not answered to the implicit intent of the question.

The strength of LLM is their ability to answer to unprecisely specified questions, being able to guess the speaker's intent, but in this particular case, it's failing the test.

mejutoco2y ago

It seems you agree with me, I do not understand. Wrong thread maybe you replied to?

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ksaj2y ago

Could you not have at least Googled the word before speaking against it?

https://www.google.com/search?q=stagi

There are a lot of genuine hits for stagi.

omneity2y ago

those are either family or brand names. I don’t see it used as a common word in any of the results.

ksaj2y ago

mejutoco2y ago

To be fair the question did not specify the language and included a disclaimer about it.

ksaj2y ago

Even if you don't consider an Italian word as a word: It's a last name. It's a brand name. It is several companies' name.

It belongs in the list just fine.

littlestymaar2y ago

Then the word rhamanagagi (which I just made up) is a word that would technically belong to the list just fine, it definitely not answered to the implicit intent of the question.

The strength of LLM is their ability to answer to unprecisely specified questions, being able to guess the speaker's intent, but in this particular case, it's failing the test.

mejutoco2y ago

It seems you agree with me, I do not understand. Wrong thread maybe you replied to?

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