It makes similar coding error as ChatGPT (gpt-4-turbo), where I tried several models on an apparently not simple task in the linked topic, at a token production rate reminiscient of gpt-4 a year ago. This lmsys AI uses a ChatGPT prompt, so replication of prior input is easy, and set again to top_p:0.1.
User:
Here’s a line of Python code with the intention that just the start and the end of a long string is printed, inserting an elide marker in the middle. However, if the string is instead short, the output shown has overlap of repeated text.
print(f"{transcribed_text[:200]}\n…\n{transcribed_text[-200:]}")
Replace this inline script snippet by writing a version that can never overlap the text, and does not elide if length is under the start + end text length. Use clever pythonic techniques focused on efficiency, not tutorial.
AI:
A more efficient and correct approach that avoids text overlap and unnecessary elision for shorter strings can be implemented as follows:
print(f"{transcribed_text[:200]}{'\n…\n' if len(transcribed_text) > 400 else ''}{transcribed_text[-200:] if len(transcribed_text) > 200 else transcribed_text}")
Explanation:
-
String Slicing and Length Check:
- The script uses
transcribed_text[:200]
to capture the first 200 characters of the string.
- It checks if the total length of
transcribed_text
exceeds 400 using len(transcribed_text) > 400
. If it does, it inserts the elision marker (\n…\n
).
- The end segment
transcribed_text[-200:]
is conditionally appended only if the length of transcribed_text
exceeds 200 characters. This avoids the case where the string length is between 200 and 400, which would otherwise repeat the text or show an irrelevant elision marker.
-
Efficiency and Pythonic Style:
- This approach minimizes the operations performed on the string by using length checks to dictate the format.
- It uses Python’s f-string formatting, which is efficient for creating strings.
- The conditional expressions inside the f-string (
{... if ... else ...}
) are concise and execute without requiring additional conditional (if-else) blocks outside the print statement.
-
Behavior:
- If
len(transcribed_text) <= 200
: Prints the text as is.
- If
201 <= len(transcribed_text) <= 400
: Prints the first 200 characters and the last part without any overlap or elision marker.
- If
len(transcribed_text) > 400
: Prints the first 200 characters, an elision marker, and the last 200 characters, ensuring there’s no overlap.
This solution is optimal for scenarios where the string length varies significantly, efficiently handling both short and long strings with appropriate formatting.
User (having the AI analyze what it wrote with an approach that made ChatGPT find the error:
Describe the printing behavior, with careful analysis, if transcribed_text were 300 characters in length.
Assistant
If transcribed_text
is 300 characters in length, let’s analyze how the proposed Python line will handle printing:
print(f"{transcribed_text[:200]}{'\n…\n' if len(transcribed_text) > 400 else ''}{transcribed_text[-200:] if len(transcribed_text) > 200 else transcribed_text}")
Here’s the step-by-step explanation of what happens:
-
First Part (transcribed_text[:200]
):
- This extracts the first 200 characters of
transcribed_text
.
- Since the string is 300 characters long, this operation successfully retrieves the first 200 characters.
-
Conditional Elision Marker ({'\n…\n' if len(transcribed_text) > 400 else ''}
):
- This part checks if the length of
transcribed_text
is greater than 400 to decide whether to include an elision marker (\n…\n
).
- Given that the string is only 300 characters long, the condition
len(transcribed_text) > 400
evaluates to False
.
- Therefore, no elision marker is inserted.
-
Second Part ({transcribed_text[-200:] if len(transcribed_text) > 200 else transcribed_text}
):
- This extracts the last 200 characters of
transcribed_text
.
- Since the string is 300 characters long,
transcribed_text[-200:]
starts from the 101st character to the end (300th character), effectively capturing the last 200 characters.
- The condition
len(transcribed_text) > 200
is True
(because 300 > 200), so it correctly decides to use transcribed_text[-200:]
.
Final Output Composition:
Given the string length of 300, the output will concatenate:
- The first 200 characters.
- Directly followed by the last 200 characters, because there is no elision marker.
Example Analysis:
Let’s assume transcribed_text
is “abcdefghij” repeated 30 times, thus making it exactly 300 characters long (since “abcdefghij” is 10 characters, repeated 30 times is 300 characters).
transcribed_text[:200]
will give us “abcdefghij” repeated 20 times.
transcribed_text[-200:]
will give us “abcdefghij” starting from the 11th full repetition to the 30th, which is again “abcdefghij” repeated 20 times.
Output:
abcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghij
Here, the output essentially prints the first 200 characters followed by the last 200 characters, with no separation or elision, resulting in an evident visual overlap of content from characters 101 to 200 with part of what is repeated as last 200 characters.
This approach mistakenly assumes the last segment needs to be shown only if greater than 200 characters, which isn’t a logical necessity for clarity or unique content display. The overlap in the middle (characters 101-200 being repeated in the printout) highlights a flaw in the logic for handling cases where the string length is between double the desired head/tail lengths (400 in this case) and the individual segment length (200 here). Adjusting the logic to better handle middle-sized strings (like 300 characters) without such redundancy or overlap would involve more nuanced conditional handling or redesign of the character extraction logic.
Again the same behavior is seen as ChatGPT, notably, there is no responsibility, or even awareness or attention
, that the code being analyzed was written by the AI immediately before, with a “my bad”.
So if it was “smart” it’s people that already had lowered expectations of a ChatGPT output instead of those that have used gpt-4 at release.