A Chat with Bard

Given all the excitement around ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, etc., we decided to test Bard’s logical reasoning powers. Bard was given the English description of the TPTP problem PUZ001+1 - “Who Killed Aunt Agatha?”, modified to really ask that question. This short paper documents the story that unfolded, and how tools from the TPTP World were used to examine the output from Bard.

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Kalpa publications in computing
Published
2025-04-07
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https://doi.org/10.29007/r9l2
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
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A Chat with Bard

Jack McKeown, Geoff Sutcliffe, Alexander Steen
Kalpa publications in computing
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
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A Chat with Bard

Jack McKeown, Geoff Sutcliffe, Alexander Steen
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Abstract

Given all the excitement around ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, etc., we decided to test Bard’s logical reasoning powers. Bard was given the English description of the TPTP problem PUZ001+1 - “Who Killed Aunt Agatha?”, modified to really ask that question. This short paper documents the story that unfolded, and how tools from the TPTP World were used to examine the output from Bard.

Kalpa publications in computingVol. 21
Openalex Percentile: Top 97%
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