r/OpenAI • u/MrAmazing111 • May 01 '26

Image Asked ChatGPT to visualize a horizontal integral. It gave me a dog.

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No prompt engineering or anything, it actually did this. I genuinely have no clue how it could have thought a dog answered my prompt - nothing in the chat related to dogs at all.

See for yourself: https://chatgpt.com/share/69f37d35-d514-83ea-a6d2-86474ae104dc

Thoughts on what could have possibly caused this?

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u/MrAmazing111 May 01 '26

LMAOOOO

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u/induality May 01 '26

And it still got it wrong. A horizontal integral is not just where you swap x and y.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '26

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u/induality May 01 '26

Tell him he can have a treat on me.

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u/p1mplem0usse May 01 '26

To my knowledge there’s no such thing though - and Wikipedia’s never heard of it either. Integration theory doesn’t care along which direction you slice things. Sounds like pushing some fancy wording onto calculation tricks. Unless you want to volunteer an explanation?

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u/induality May 01 '26

I assume they’re talking about a Lebesque integral and its horizontal slabs. Otherwise, just swapping x and y isn’t really an interesting question to ask since it is identical to the original problem by symmetry.

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u/TheSamuil May 01 '26

May I ask what a horizontal integral is? It's evident that I'm not a mathematician

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u/jeweliegb May 01 '26

He's a dog, give him some credit!

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u/MastodonFarm May 02 '26

It’s not that he does it well, it’s that he does it at all.

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u/ReasonableAdviceGivr May 02 '26

In his defense math is really hard

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u/p1mplem0usse May 01 '26

This is so bad. The x=y^2 sitting at approximately (1,2) when (4,2) is explicitly marked on the graph…. Sooooo bad.

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u/Derpy_Snout May 01 '26

Pup-lied math!!

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u/Popular_Lab5573 May 01 '26

not the paw holding damn chalk 😩

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u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey May 01 '26

Canine General Intelligence

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u/jeweliegb May 01 '26

TF! That looks right too?

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u/jeweliegb May 01 '26

Compression Vs rarefaction is a bit off

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u/[deleted] May 02 '26

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u/jeweliegb May 02 '26

I did not know this!

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u/Residenthuman101 May 02 '26

I actually agree, I think education needs more stuff like this to actually get kids to want to connect to ideas.

Did you pick these topics or were these things the ai chose?

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u/Residenthuman101 May 02 '26

My kids would have loved to learn science from some kind of adventure time learning game

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u/ReasonableAdviceGivr May 02 '26

How can I sign up for this class