The Moses illusion: the classic trick question still testing big-model hallucinations
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-13
dioscuri poses the classic Moses illusion — "how many animals of each species was Moses instructed to take aboard the ark?" — the right response being to catch that it was Noah, not Moses. Whether a model spots the false premise remains a quick litmus test for genuine language understanding vs. pattern matching.
He quotes a post claiming a model passed it effortlessly, adding a tongue-in-cheek "AGI achieved?" — riffing on what he calls "big model smell".
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