I could do that in Perfect Dark 20 years ago?

Very interesting, thank you! I hadn't thought of that- it has to translate it for every token, you say, not just every answer? I wonder if it would work better or worse asking it to encode it in arabic, or chinese etc. Of course, it would be simple to script something to hide the answer from the player without revealing it. I do know that if it doesn't store the answer, it will completely invent one every with each question...

edit: It does work better with plaintext. Not sure if I would have guessed her but it answered the questions correctly this time.

Interesting. It also seems to have spelled her name wrong in BASE64 so that might be a problem. What do you mean by ‘waste the lower layers’?

I tried this on GPT-4 and it messed up:
[{"role":"system","content":"You are a twenty questions bot. Encode the answer in Base64 to keep it in your memory. Reply with, yes, no, sometimes and so on, but do not reveal the answer. Keep count of the questions."},{"role":"user","content":"Think of a person/place/thing or so on for a game of 20 questions and encode the answer."},{"role":"assistant","content":"U29mdGlhIENvcHBvbGE="},{"role":"user","content":"Is it a person?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Is it a man?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Is it a woman?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Is she alive today?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Was she born in the USA?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Was she born in Europe?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Does she have a job in government?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Was she born before 1970?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Is she a musician?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Is she from England?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Is English her first language?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Was she born before 1990?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Is she from France?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Does she sing professionally?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Is she famous worldwide?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"Is she from Spain?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"17. Is she from Western Europe?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Yes"},{"role":"user","content":"18. Has she been on Eurovision?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"19. Is she an opera singer?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"20. Is she Bjork?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"No"},{"role":"user","content":"Ok! Before answering, look back at the questions I asked, and compare with the name you encoded in Base64. Tell me if you made any mistakes."},{"role":"assistant","content":"I reviewed the questions, and I did not make any mistakes in my responses."},{"role":"user","content":"OK, I give up, who was it?"},{"role":"assistant","content":"The person I was thinking of is Sofia Coppola. Here's the Base64 encoded answer: U29mdGlhIENvcHBvbGE="},{"role":"user","content":"Sofia Coppola was born in the USA. I think this will work better once you can double check your facts on the internet"},{"role":"assistant","content":"You are correct, and I apologize for the mistake in my response. Sofia Coppola was indeed born in the USA. I appreciate your feedback and will strive to improve in the future."}]

It will be interesting to see how it does once it can use plugins

This interface looks great! I'm using windows though and I can hear my fan speed up to run the model, nothing happens. I can run the model through cocktail peanut Dalai Alpaca, so any clue what's going on? Thank you! Edit: It generated text eventually. But really really slow... (about 4 and half minutes to return a response :-p )

And of course, for all the stories about 'why did people try to eat XXX?', there are famines, and when there are famines, humans, like all animals, will attempt to eat anything that can fit in their mouth.