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daymanstep | on: Claude Fable 5
What kind of problems are you trying to have it solve ?
_kb | parent | next
The Riemann hypothesis, PvNP, and the Collatz conjecture.
black_knight | root | parent
Not these. I wonder if the well is poisoned there. The models know that these are "unpossible", so it might not solve them just because… Maybe some day.

I am just testing it on stuff I know intimately myself. I would probably not understand a proof of Collatz if it was dansing in front of me!

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Lerc | root | parent | next
That's a bit of a tricky point. I have had quite a lot of problems with models informing me what I am attempting is impossible. If no-one has done it, or at least it doesn't know about it being done it tends to fall back on people voicing their baseless speculations, and for just about anything you propose, you can find a person who will loudly proclaim it is impossible.

The curse of the 'use case' comes in here too. When people think that everything should have a use case, that's a lot of training data suggesting to a model that things should only be used for what someone has already thought of.

A couple of times I have had to manually code proof of concept pieces so that the model breaks out of that "unpossible" mode and actually helps me.

I can't remember if it was chatGPT or Claude, but when I showed it how to get a MessagePort in its JavaScript executor through to the artifact/canvas, it quickly went from "That can't be done" to positively enthusiastic about the possibilities. I suspect those shenanigans will be well off the table for Fable though.

unnouinceput | root | parent
Stop dancing and share the prompt, we're dying to see it
black_knight | parent
The medium ones are results where one needs to construct some object, which my intuition tells me should exist. The difficult ones are typically to show that certain objects can not be constructed.

These are not Fields medal type problems, nor know difficult/open conjectures. Just small stuff I have collected in my todo list over the years.