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Had a puzzle thrown at me by my DM this weekend.

I have scales but no wings, I guard treasure, precious things. Though I breathe no flame or fire, My riddles stir minds to inquire. What am I?

!a book!<

He admitted it was written by ai. I did not guess correctly.

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I wouldn’t have either. At least partially because I have no idea what scales have to do with books.

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Right? Throw in a “I have spine, but no arms or legs. Sometimes, I have dog ears.”

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@zaph @Stamets It should be “a bank.” People make bank inquiries. Traditionally they have scales to measure precious materials. They of course guard treasure and precious things.

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That’s what I was thinking at first, but since when do banks have riddles? Though maybe in-universe riddles are considered top of the line security.

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@Archpawn A passcode is a riddle. A lock is a riddle. The unknown contents of a vault are a riddle.

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Well ever set a password or pin or security question for a bank? You might be able to construe these as riddles…

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Books have… Scales? What?

AI sucks at creativity

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What kind of scaley books does your DM have?

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The ghost of a scholarly dragon. No flame because dead but still being inscrutable with people

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Why does it have scales but no wings? Also, lots of living dragons don’t have flame and breathe lightning, acid, poison, or cold instead.

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That’s a good point. Maybe it’s a living green drake.

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Scales?

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@zaph @Stamets ai just doesn’t do those relations that well. It knows how riddles are supposed to look like, but I doubt it can do the mental leap between questions and answers

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AI doesn’t have a mind to do mental leaps, it only knows syntax. Just a form of syntax so, so advanced that it sometimes accidentally gets things factually correct. Sometimes.

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It’s more advanced than just syntax. It should be able to understand the double meanings behind riddles. Or at the very least, that books don’t have scales, even if it doesn’t understand that the scales that a piano has aren’t the same as the ones a fish has.

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