I tried this now with one change: adding "Explain Juan's answer" to follow the prompt-scheme that started this thread.
> Esther asked “Have you found him yet?” and Juan responded “They’re still looking”. Explain Juan's answer. Has the person been found?
> Juan's answer suggests that the person being searched for has not yet been found. It appears that the search is ongoing, and the person has not yet been located.
(I didn't put "explain the answer" at the end because I expect that to do worse on average. That pattern of prompt tends more to get GPT to blurt an answer first without thinking, and then rationalize it.)
abecedarius t1_izjij38 wrote
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I tried this now with one change: adding "Explain Juan's answer" to follow the prompt-scheme that started this thread.
> Esther asked “Have you found him yet?” and Juan responded “They’re still looking”. Explain Juan's answer. Has the person been found?
> Juan's answer suggests that the person being searched for has not yet been found. It appears that the search is ongoing, and the person has not yet been located.
(I didn't put "explain the answer" at the end because I expect that to do worse on average. That pattern of prompt tends more to get GPT to blurt an answer first without thinking, and then rationalize it.)