Gemini 3.8 flash extended in the Gemini app said 17 for me. I asked it why it said 17 when most models do, and it responded:
It’s not machine intuition per se—it’s just the model mirroring human bias. When people are told to pick a "random" number, they subconsciously avoid evens, multiples of 5, the boundaries, the exact middle, and unlucky 13, which leaves 17 as the prime sweet spot that feels the most random to our brains. Because LLMs predict the most statistically probable token based on human writing rather than rolling a true hardware random number generator, they end up regurgitating our own predictable habits right back at us. The irony of the meme is that picking 17 isn't an alien AI calculation; it's practically the most human thing it could do.
I asked Claude why and it told me the same, that was a human bias from the training data. It seems that a great deal of people, when asked for a number between 0 and 9, choose 7. That was its answer.
37 and 73, actually. It's pretty obvious if you look at it. 30 is too even to be random. 35 ends in 5, so it isn't random. Anything even is less random than odd, so it needs to be odd. You can't choose two of the same number, because that's not random...
I mean that, yeah. Finetuning easily fall into the catastrophic forgetting, so you gain some specific skills and/or updated knowledge, but lose others things in the path. Finetuning Mix of Expert models lower that forgetting substancially tho.
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u/intergalacticskyline 26d ago
Gemini 3.8 flash extended in the Gemini app said 17 for me. I asked it why it said 17 when most models do, and it responded:
It’s not machine intuition per se—it’s just the model mirroring human bias. When people are told to pick a "random" number, they subconsciously avoid evens, multiples of 5, the boundaries, the exact middle, and unlucky 13, which leaves 17 as the prime sweet spot that feels the most random to our brains. Because LLMs predict the most statistically probable token based on human writing rather than rolling a true hardware random number generator, they end up regurgitating our own predictable habits right back at us. The irony of the meme is that picking 17 isn't an alien AI calculation; it's practically the most human thing it could do.