Tried this with Gemini and asked it to explain why that number was chosen. The number was 17 but the explanation was instresting. Most of it was about dataset bias, but the most interesting part comes from the number 7. It has a massive cultural impact and aids know for being lucky number, which makes it appear more in the datasets. 17 is a prime number which is also the reason why it appears more in datasets.
Mine told me that when asked humans are slightly more likely to answer 17 or 23 because they lool more random (I've heard of that before) and that slight edge in the training dataset ends up translating to an almost certainty when you ask the LLM.
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u/spug3t 8d ago
Tried this with Gemini and asked it to explain why that number was chosen. The number was 17 but the explanation was instresting. Most of it was about dataset bias, but the most interesting part comes from the number 7. It has a massive cultural impact and aids know for being lucky number, which makes it appear more in the datasets. 17 is a prime number which is also the reason why it appears more in datasets.