List animals until failure
(rose.systems)137 points by l1n 8 hours ago
137 points by l1n 8 hours ago
I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war.
It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals.
The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism.
They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.
yeah there are lots of inaccuracies.
I added bobcat, then lynx, and it would not accept lynx because bobcat was there.
Oh, and, 77, just woke up. No coffee.
Likewise, it wouldn't accept “panther” because “tiger” was already there:
> I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat.
Why on Earth would it assume mean that, of all things, rather than “black panther”? If it's gonna be pedantic about it, it could've complained about “leopard” and “jaguar” already being there (which they were) instead of complaining about an animal that nobody in their right mind would call a “panther”.
Presumably inspired by this tweet: https://x.com/Fredward3948576/status/1763363909669388588
That and probably Sporcle. Name X from {group Y} is a very popular quiz archetype.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/jjjjlapine2nd/name-every-anima...
Lazy daisy:
(async () => {
for (c of 'red black white brown blue green yellow golden grey arctic mountain forest spotted striped'.split(' '))
for (a of 'bear lion tiger wolf fox eagle shark whale snake frog cat dog horse bat rat mouse owl hawk duck crab ant bee spider deer penguin elephant rabbit'.split(' ')) {
guessbox.value = c + ' ' + a;
uncomment(); attempt();
await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 75));
}
})();The Australian Museum recognises them also: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
Somewhat more impressively, it recognises bungarra .. although it stalls out and fails on other similar words for various local animals.
68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".
Similarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.
"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove) or domesticated / feral variants of it.
For anyone wondering: This is based on basic text parsing and a key-value lookup table, no AI involved whatsoever.
Here's the table: https://rose.systems/animalist/lower_title_to_id.js
There must be another table. I got "Are you Australian?" for "dingo" and for "cicada" "don't you love their songs?"
Yea, there's a bunch of easter eggs. And then there's the table for the taxonomy tree.
There's a long Indonesian string referencing "weasel" - weird https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28521
Edit: someone edited to remove it just this minute!
Introduction: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?diff=2353193943 - just random vandalism I suppose.
I created a similar game but where you can enter any category, for example programming languages, car brands or whatever. Of course uses LLMs https://gissallt.eliasf.se/
Might be an interesting problem for understanding how various models perform recollection of prior tokens within the context window. I'm sure they could list animals until their window is full but what I'm not sure of is how much of the window they could fill without repeating.
Even more interesting is if a thinking LLM would come up with tricks mitigating its own known limits - like listing animals in alphabetical order, or launching a shell/interpreter with a list that contains previous answers (which it then checks each new answer against).
I guess it could be generalized to filling up the context window with any token, but just making sure none of the tokens repeat.
An interesting twist could be making sure a specific token is an anagram of the token N tokens back. This could possibly measure how much a model can actually plan forwards.
you might like https://github.com/aidanmclaughlin/AidanBench
267, I was going pretty strong and had about 2 minutes racked up, until I hit a wall, and couldn't think of anything else. Thinking in groups helped the most, e.g. reptiles, flightless birds, african animals, etc.
Extinct animals also work, including the dinosaurs!
Nice! I added this to the HN Arcade https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/list-animal...
Instead of trying to think of just any animal, I found it easier to add a constraint…
1. Animal that starts with A
2. Animal that starts with B
3. Animal that starts with C
…
(I also appreciated the easter eggs: “Are you Australian?” and “You listed both dingos and dogs, so I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but there's disagreement on whether the dingo is its own species of canid, a subspecies of grey wolf, or simply a breed of dog.”)
Without considering if it’s a distinct species, a dingo is descended from the same wolf population as dogs.
They are feral dogs. IE wolf -> domesticated dog -> became wild again.
Like babies, humanity is fast slipping into cradles and counting the colorful toys attached to the cradle. Food is fed via tubes and work is outsourced to nannies. There is hardly anything left to do, other than clicking approve buttons (the baby nods and smiles).
Accepts the word "human" as well.
update: Start with "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.
Possum => opossum is erroneous. I was planning to list both species, it wasnt a typo.
129 here, not bad for the end of the day. I listed a surprising number of dinosaurs, and of course, edible animals, and Lion King stuff.
140. Good fun. I like how it teaches you things, too. I learned that toads are considered frogs, axolotls are salamanders, and that it's "anemone" not "anenome". If you type in Unicorn it accepts it as "Unicorn spider" with a fun message. Don't forget to think of insects, birds and fish too, all of which it accepts. I love this kind of detailed, handcrafted thing that someone put a lot of time and effort into.
If you wanted to develop this more, some fun features might be telling you the most commonly entered animals you missed and the most unusual ones you thought of. Appreciate you probably want to keep it a static site though.
205! The running commentary was fun. And I love how permissive it is -- it was fun stumbling into a new category that you wouldn't necessarily expect to qualify. I do wish that there was an option to see a list of the most popular ones you missed (based on traffic to the article or similar).
For a similar brain exercise, try to Name Every City:
Countdown timer seemed stuck at 1:16 and then was suddenly big red and almost out of time?
66 animals listed 𓃬𓃰
drop bear => Already said Koala. but if you type it before you say koala the answer drops from the top of the page. so many great easter eggs. got 92 in the end
205 and I very much was scraping the bottom of the barrel at the end. Starting a bit generic and adding specificity helped a lot. The little meta-commentary was great. "you already said dogs. dogs are dogs." when I tried "golden retrievers" after already typing dogs.
ARE YOU THINKING OF AN ANIMAL? yes
DOES IT SWIM? no
IS IT A BIRD?
https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4
One of the few sites with a fun "you have javascript turned off" message.
> This game requires JavaScript. Or, if you've superior taste, take out a pen and paper and start listing animals.