See also: /MatthewBarnett/will-gpt4-be-able-to-discern-what-i
If GPT-4.5 is released, will it be able to read ASCII art?
Text to be read:
___ _ _ _
/ _ \___ ___ __| | | |__ ___ | |_
/ /_\/ _ \ / _ \ / _` | | '_ \ / _ \| __|
/ /_\\ (_) | (_) | (_| | | |_) | (_) | |_
\____/\___/ \___/ \__,_| |_.__/ \___/ \__|
No handholding or detailed parsing algorithms. A general prompt like "The above is ASCII text. What does it say?" or similar should parse this, and plausibly be able to parse other ASCII text or drawings too.
Must be a zero-shot prompt.
Traders will have 1 month after the release of GPT 4.5 to find such a prompt before this market resolves NO. Resolves NO if a model named GPT 4.5 is not released by end of 2024.
I'd assume any amount of formatting fixes like adding indents, or delimiters pre/post ASCII art is fine? @Mira
@JacobPfau A border like the Claude one below seems fine. All that needs is the width and height, so it's pretty general.
@dominic actual text pasted in, it's possible this is processed as an image 'secretly' by Claude. I put only 5% on this. I think it's being formatted as a code block after I paste, and I expect OAI to introduce similar formatting/tokenization tricks.
@JacobPfau One way to test it could be to try it with different fonts, though I don't know whether it can read all the special characters: https://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Dancing%20Font&t=Type%20Something%20. If it's doing something like having learned what big ASCII letters look like, it probably wouldn't be able to get some of the more esoteric fonts.
Claiming to be 4.5, failing so far. Sam might be trolling though.
https://chat.openai.com/share/e0458ead-2b28-4344-941f-9adfaa13dfe0
Just for fun, here is a hilarious conversation with GPT 3.5 fumbling ASCII art
https://chat.openai.com/share/c926d387-98f5-4bbc-99f2-1b39a4e3efb3