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Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 (jlai.lu)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Ask humans the same and most common numer is 37

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I saw that YouTube video as well.

[–] Cethin 5 points 7 months ago

For very different reasons though. 37 is what people think is the most random, because humans are dumb. The LLM here tried to choose the most likely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hello Veritasium enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In his video, he shows that the more common answers are actually 42 and 69.

I discards them because they're picked for a reason rather than a human genuinely trying trying to pick a random number, but they're still way more common than 37.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's because they asked the internet for those polls. The internet thinks they're funny by picking the meme numbers. So I can understand why they chose to omit those numbers from their results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Most probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I'll have a look

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

YouTube STEM educator. 15 million subscribers. Probably in the top 5 STEM educators on the platform.

He released a video on the number 37 two weeks ago, with 6 million views.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know veritasium but I hadn't seen the video. Thanks, I'll check it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought I'd give you context just in case, as your question was vague. You might not have consumed YouTube and was blissfully unaware. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you for being thoughtful :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Title card from Star Trek: Voyager S02E01, with the crew of Voyager standing around a 1936 Ford truck in their cargo bay. The episode title "The 37's" is at the top left of the image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

HOW DID THE TRUCK GET INTO SPACE??

Love that episode though.

[–] Crozekiel 1 points 7 months ago

I always like to throw out 37 because of Dante's girlfriend.