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I’ve found it quite bad at unscrambling letters. Asking a seven letter word from “solution” I got , outlins (not a word), loutins( a long explanation about how this relates to hawks which was also made up, this is not a word) and after lots of prodding I managed to get it to say lotions

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Performing this would require a lot of compute resources.

Perhaps any tasks that require a great deal of dynamic memory/comparison would be expected to struggle in this architecture.

Since "write down all possible permutations of these letters" is like n! "cross reference the permutations with a dictionary/definition if you feel like it" must be performed m*n times, maybe other such n! tasks are doomed until more parameters are feasible.

It almost certainly could produce a bash script to do that based on what I've seen.

The fact that it eventually got "lotions" is pretty surprising and impressive, honestly. Can you share how you "prodded" it?

First I asked it, what is something you rub one your body. It answered sunscreen. Then I asked can you make a 6 letter word from given letters. It answered lotion. Then I asked can you make a 7 letter word and it just repeated its previous answer that no 7 letter English word is possible. Finally I told if you extend the 6 letter word you came up with, it should be possible and then it apologized and came up with lotions

That's not mistakable for anything close to understanding language, but it's still amazing

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