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@nixCraft That’s a valid answer.

@nixCraft The rainbow has joined the chat

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Red: #ff0000
Green: #00ff00
Blue: #0000ff

Green is clearly between red and blue in hex. I’d say the AI understands colour better than most backend devs who pretend to be full-stack (like me).

@bazkie @calisti @ankitpati @nixCraft says hue

@ankitpati @nixCraft not if you treat it as a 3 dimensional vector as intended

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aha!

But going which direction around the color wheel?

mhmm...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=color+wheel&iax=images&ia=images

@nixCraft Well not to create panic but

R….(G)….B

That’s actually smarter than most ChatGPT answers.

@nixCraft maybe maybe maybe

@nixCraft chatGPt4 like this…

@nixCraft I just had to verify this.... and it turned out to be reproducible!

@nixCraft Technically right: In RGB color code, #rrggbb, "green" is between "red" and "blue".

The layperson's common sense answer, though, should be a color like "violet".

@nixCraft This is an Interesting answer, but it shows the limitations. It is one of three absolute answers, and thus boring. The color on the RGB(transmission) color wheel without red or blue is green. Magenta, which is both red and green, could also be right. Yellow could substitute for the green in a reflective color wheel often used by artists. None are creative answers, though switching to RYB would be a start. Had I seen Raw Sienna or Payne’s Gray, or even Cyan I’d be impressed.

If someone asked me to pick a number between one and five, I’d almost certainly pick pi. Nowhere in that instruction says to pick an integer, nor number completely in between the two. Similarly, nowhere does it say to pick up Hue between red and blue, so any color saturation and luminosity is perfectly acceptable, and I would be impressed if it picked a nice one.

Sadly, most humans are as bad as picking colors as chat GPT.

@nixCraft To be fair, some people will also reply like this. Some even worse

@nixCraft That's correct: 400 THz (red) < 530 THz (green) < 620 THz (blue). Green is in the middle of red and blue.

@nixCraft it can have mine

@nixCraft Yeah ... no. This post just shows two things:
1) Author does not know the current useable use-cases of given AIs and creates screen of "fun" cases where the AI failed. It's like asking a first grader to solve an elliptic integral and discarding the fact that they can make you a morning coffee.
2) The answer is (maybe by accident) correct from non language perspective. Which makes a beautiful irony as this type of misunderstanding is AFAIK expected with higher types of AI.

@nixCraft Nothing wrong with the answer, as several comments point to context. If you want "violet" as an answer you should ask "which colour is mixed from red and bue".