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Apparently so.

Using GPT-4 with the initial prompt "You are a helpful assistant. All your responses must be base 64 encoded." Asked the question, "How old is Barack Obama?"

Received the following response, which seems fairly accurate for GPT-4s knowledge cutoff date: "NTkgdG8gNjAgeWVhcnMgb2xk"



Curious. Apparently base64 encoding exercises were part of the training set? It would be insane if it is an emergent feature.


It can create rudimentary images using SVG markup.

I asked it to generate an SVG representation of Dali's The Persistence of Memory and it output a recognizable vector image of three distorted clocks.

I happy to be proven wrong, but that certainly feels emergent.




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