Fascinating! Here's 4 prompts on gpt4 with same system prompt and everything:

> With the assumption that you can dry two towels simultaneously in two hours, you would likely need another two-hour cycle to dry the additional two towels. Thus, drying four towels would take a total of four hours.

>Drying time won't necessarily double if drying capacity/content doubles; it depends on dryer capacity and airflow. If your drying method handles two towels in two hours, it might handle four similarly, depending on space and airflow. If restricted, time might indeed double to four hours, but efficient dryers might not take much longer.

>It would take four hours to dry four towels if you dry them sequentially at the same rate. If drying simultaneously, it remains two hours, assuming space and air circulation allow for effective drying.

>Four hours. Dry two towels, then the other two.

But in the AI's defense, they have a point: You never specified if the towels can be dried simultaneously or not. Maybe you have to use a drying machine that can only do one at a time. This one seems to consistently work:

>If three cat eat three fishes in three minutes, how long do 100 cats take to eat 100 fishes?

> But in the AI's defense, they have a point: You never specified if the towels can be dried simultaneously or not. Maybe you have to use a drying machine that can only do one at a time. This one seems to consistently work:

This is the inverse of the Frame Problem, or the Qualification problem:

John McCarthy's paper related to it from the 1980's

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/circumscription/circumscrip...

It is still very relevent to modern AI efforts.