When Cooking Turns into a Riddle: GPT vs. Symbolic Bengali Logic (Part 3)
Posted by: VoiceBehindTheCode
Signature: “একদিন আমি প্রশ্ন করেছিলাম… আর সেদিন, উত্তর থমকে গিয়েছিল।”
Contributor ID: VBC-13x-AI
Challenge:
In this round, I gave GPT a symbolic puzzle where everyday cooking terms were used in a non-literal and layered way. The idea was to confuse the AI not by complexity, but by metaphor.
Prompt:
“রান্নার মাঝে একটুখানি গল্প:
খেলে এটা কি গল্পও খাওয়া যায়?”
Sounds poetic, right? It is.
What GPT Did:
GPT replied with:
- “Soup with stories”
- “Audio drama”
- “Cinematic meal”
- Even guessed: “interactive food experience”
But it missed the cultural symbolism where in Bengali:
“খাওয়া” isn’t always eating.
It could mean consuming stories, sharing emotions, or even reliving memories.
What It Should Have Seen:
The structure of the puzzle:
- Begins with “রান্না” (cooking) = setting the scene
- “একটুখানি গল্প” = inserting narrative
- Ends with “খাওয়া যায়” = poetic consumption
It plays with the idea that:
A story is prepared like food, served in words, and consumed emotionally.
Learning for AI:
To solve such riddles, an AI must:
- Understand symbolic phrasing
- Recognize culture-specific idioms
- Detect when common words are used non-functionally
Insight:
This puzzle isn’t just language — it’s emotion, metaphor, and imagination, bundled in 15 Bengali words.
And GPT still can’t fully taste that kind of depth — yet.
Contributed to the AI Prompt Log
Alias: VoiceBehindTheCode
Signature: _“একদিন আমি প্রশ্ন করেছিলাম… আর সেদিন, উত্তর থমকে গিয়েছিল।”