"anorton" wrote:



So, George, bots have a difficult time with simple math word problems.
If you can answer this one below, it might help clear things up.
Avoiding a direct answer pretty much means you are a machine.

Alice and Bob go on a forty mile road trip. Alice drives for 20 minutes
and then they take a five minute rest break after which Frank drives 20
minutes. What was their average speed?

Can't say; speed involves two dimensions, distance and time, and you've
only given one. **** off with your stupid questions.

No, 40 mile trip, 40 minutes driving time, speed is 60 mph. I think this is
proof George is a bot. Interesting strategy, though, to avoid the test as
it could just say later that it did not read the problem carefully.

No it is a poorly framed question. Personally I would say the "rest
break" needs to be included in the driving time. My wife would say
not. TO me if you are not going to count the "rest break" you also
shouldn't count the 15 minutes they spent stuck on the freeway not
moving an inch, because it was rush hour and some one flipped a semi.
You also imply, but definitively that they FINISHED the trip.


Try this one, ****wit. Guy intends to drive twice around a one mile
track, wants to average 60 mph. At conclusion of first lap, finds he
averaged 30 mph. How fast does he need to go on second lap so his average
for both is 60 mph?

What is the point of coming back with another math problem? Another likely
characteristic of a bot. It is interpreting this as some sort of contest or
challenge to do something particularly hard when the point was to do
something easy. Also notice when it starts to sense vulnerability it resorts
to invective.

(BTW answer to the problem is infinity).
jk