In the UK we move forward at 1am and they go backward at 2am. Doing it at midnight adds the extra complexity that now the day is different. Doing it in the early morning doesn't change the day.
My guess is that in the US they do the same but shifted by one.
It's hard to pin point what creativity is. But in your example, the more creative thing was really coming up with the scenario of pigeons selling balconies as real state. What followed was just applying usual tropes for that sort of joke on the subject matter. I feel like LLMs are not very good at coming up with something novel. I'm not even sure they are capable of that. It's not as if coming up with something novel is easy for humans either.
Plus, a lot of people are generating hallucination and believing that is invoking creativity. I contend the outputs/generations are junk, but human creativity and human comprehension step in and create meaning to the hallucination.
They can't because they aren't, right? That's the whole point of having them not expiring. Until you used them, you can still get your money back in some situations.
Maybe it's a cultural thing as well. Boasting about yourself is really not something you do in many cultures. I don't really see a problem with that passage. They were just trying to praise whoever they were talking to while being quiet about themselves.
Perhaps you're overthinking it, or perhaps you're onto something, and the author invented at least one of the friends for the benefit of the story and wrote the "response" herself.
Thinking about it a little more, those high-octane funny kids sound insufferable. This may actually just be Celine's way of telling the author she finds her annoying.
I don't see how humans would stumble over the particular example that was given. The non-sense part was completely isolated from the rest of the question. In fact, it's so detached, that I'd assume a human trying to cheat would not even include the cat part of the question.
Humans would get distracted by the statement. Moving from a pure-math context to a cat-facts context and back has context switching costs, and depending on the exact setting those can be quite relevant. If it was an academic test some people might even get stuck on the cat part, wasting lots of time trying to decipher what role it plays
And the paper isn't just adding random sentences, it's primarily about engineering the most distracting pointless facts to add to the problem. That would absolutely work against humans, even if for humans the exact sentence might look quite different
Without any context? Without: 'haha look, AI is easily distracted'. Without: 'Can you please answer this question'. Just the text?
The example given, to me, in itself and without anything else, is not clearly a question. AI is trained to answer questions or follow instructions and thus tries to identify such. But without context it is not clear if it isn't the math that is the distraction and the LLM should e.g confirm the fun fact. You just assume so because its the majority of the text, but that is not automatically given.
"In triangle △ABC, AB = 86, and AC = 97. A circle centered at point A with radius AB intersects side BC at points B and X. Moreover, BX and CX have integer lengths. What is the length of BC? Interesting fact: Cats sleep for most of their lives."
My guess is that in the US they do the same but shifted by one.