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This shows quite well that AI has zero common sense whatsoever, the results of most combinations I made are just nonsense. The associations are really vague and to me it is not interesting at all to look at random pictures and words appearing out of totally unrelated stuff. I really like man-made alchemy games though where all combinations are pre-defined and actually feel right.

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One person's specific usage of AI, in a specific game, where the AI was constrained to only coming up with words that have an associated emoji, is not a referendum on whether or not AI itself has common sense. That's like saying paint is boring because someone made a crappy painting, or code is limited because someone made an app you don't like.

Sure, its not a referendum, but its a prominent sign that even with this task AI can fail spectacularly.

P.S. Today I learned from AI that Sphinx + Drunk = Sphinxter.

That's a sick pun though - I'd definitely consider that a success

What would the right answer be?

Riddler, drunk game, no answer.

My computer programs always crashed in my first year of college, clear sign computers fail spectacularly

Did you tout your first year college programs as world changing and potentially a risk to the species because it's so intelligent/has awesome powers?

Is the author of this game doing that?

>where the AI was constrained to only coming up with words that have an associated emoji

Sorry but clearly the game description is about joining two things together into a logical craft and AI is contrained with that – not coming up with random words that have an associated emoji. In doing so the AI is not convincing, the combinations just feel random. And yes, you need common sense to come up with logical combinations which makes a game like this interesting in the first place.

It's also pretty good at lots of combos. If you asked a human to come up with all of these, it'd be pretty hard.

I found it fun regardless. HN, I proudly produce to you my newest invention: Beer + Lens = Beer Goggles.

I wouldn't say that AI has "zero" common sense. Rather it has a lot of common sense. For example, I wondered what would happen with "wind" and "paper". Perhaps paper ... storm? No, "kite". It's better than me.

paper windmill?

It also has a sense for puns sometimes. I somehow got Kaa, the snake from The Jungle Book, and combined it with money, getting "Kaa-ching" (new discovery)

One man’s nonsense is another’s profound truth. mud + brick = Adobe, for example. Doesn’t seem to make sense, yet it does.

adobe is literally mudbrick, this is too easy – like fire and water = steam

Yeah, I probably should have googled that. In my defense, the emoji it chose was , so a tad misleading to the mudbrick-ignorant.

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