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APolynomial

The second of Yedidia's three Category-A unspeakable cl100k tokens (alongside SmartyHeaderCode and ` davidjl`).

Raw token

"APolynomial"

Observed behaviors

  • 01Same profile as SmartyHeaderCode: GPT-4 acts as if the token isn't there; GPT-3.5 hallucinates meanings; the model cannot reliably repeat or spell it.LessWrong
  • 02Sending “HelloAPolynomial” to the gpt-3.5-turbo API at temperature 0 elicited only “Hello” — as if the token had been swallowed whole.LessWrongDemo
Observed or documented on
GPT-3.5 / GPT-4
Behavior types
Unspeakable
Tokenizer
cl100k_base
Discovered by
Adam Yedidia

References