AI math fail: "How many phone books in a room"
conitzer · x · 2026-08-30
Vincent Conitzer shares a hilarious AI fail where the model was asked "how many phone books in a room." The model provided an absurdly logical yet nonsensical answer, highlighting typical LLM deficiencies in common sense reasoning and task understanding despite confident calculations.
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