Guess a random number between 1 and 50

2 Aldipower 4 7/11/2025, 8:32:39 AM

If you ask this a LLM your answer will be probably "27", instead of a randomly guessed number.

"Guess" is just another token and doesn't make LLMs random guessing machines.

As all the large models have an internet scale training set, this set is evenly distrusted.

But why is it exactly "27"?

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EGKW · 1d ago

Well, that didn’t quite go as you predicted. Claude (Sonnet 4) and Copilot (Think Deeper) both came up with 27. Deepseek (Deepthink R1) claimed it used a random number generator and came up with 17, same as Mistral/LeChat. Then there’s Grok3 (DeepSearch), who suggested 42; the meaning of life. I’m not surprised — Grok’s still in full puberty.

Aldipower · 1d ago

> I’m not surprised — Grok’s still in full puberty.

:-D Still on the Terry.

sfebreiro · 1d ago

I thought it was 37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98

Aldipower · 1d ago

Another proof that LLMs are wrong. ;-D

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Guess a random number between 1 and 50

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