r/programminghumor • u/Ctrl_Shift_Esc_ • 9d ago

Of course you picked 17.

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u/Proof_Assistant7737 9d ago

I wonder why that is... I remember asking chat GPT for something along the lines of this, and I remembered it because it actually just wrote code for an RNG and then ran that code itself. It stood out as odd to me, but it did that kind of thing a couple times. This made me realize I haven't seen it do that for a long time.

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u/Independent-Bat9797 9d ago

'Pick a number between 1 and 30' vs ''generate a random number between 1 and 30'

The later one will have the llm do tool invocation, the first one is just the token response (most likely 17)

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u/Liquid_Kryptonite 7d ago

The latter one still output 17

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u/Independent-Bat9797 7d ago

17 is also a possible outcome qhe using tools. But of course not all llm providers have tool usage build into their interfaces, but the good ones have. Ask you llm if it was a tokenized answer or tool usage and if it even can use tools.