[jonchurch_]

What is the correct answer?

[AnotherGoodName]

Autosketch for MS-Dos had connect four. It's under "game" in the file menu.

This is an example of a random fact old enough no one ever bothered talking about it on the internet. So it's not cited anywhere but many of us can just plain remember it. When you ask ChatGPT (as of now on June 6th 2025) it gives a random answer every time.

Now that i've stated this on the internet in a public manner it will be corrected but... There's a million such things that i could give as an example. Some question obscure enough that no one's given an answer on the internet before so AI doesn't know but recent enough that many of us know the answer so we can instantly see just how much AI hallucinates.

[AnotherGoodName]

https://imgur.com/a/eWNTUrC for a screenshot btw to anyone curious.

To give some context, i wanted to go back to it for nostalgia sake but couldn't quite remember the name of the application. I asked various AI's what was the application i'm trying to remember and they were all off the mark. In the end only my own neurons finally lighting up got me the answer i was looking for.

[kaijia]

Thanks for this fascinating example! Autosketch is still downloadable ( https://winworldpc.com/product/autosketch/30 ). Then you can unzip it, and

  $ strings disk1.img | grep 'game'
  The object of the game is to get four
  Start a new game and place your first

So if ChatGPT cares to analyze all files on the internet, it should know the correct answer...

(edit: formatting)

[warkdarrior]

> random fact old enough no one ever bothered talking about it on the internet. So it's not cited anywhere but many of us can just plain remember it.

And since it is not written down on some website, this fact will disappear from the world once "many of us" die.

[ericrallen]

Interestingly, the Kagi Assistant managed to find this thread while researching the question, but every model I tested (without access to the higher quality Ultimate plan models) was unable to retrieve the correct answer.

Here’s an example with Gemini Flash 2.5 Preview: https://kagi.com/assistant/9f638099-73cb-4d58-872e-d7760b3ce...

It will be interesting to see if/when this information gets picked up by models.

[WillAdams]

Interestingly, Copilot in Windows 11 claims that it was Excel 95 (which actually had a Flight Simulator Easter Egg).

[ofrzeta]

Next time try asking which software has the classic quote by William of Ockham in the About menu.