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I just got an interesting[0] response from Claude 3 Opus:

> I don't believe there was an episode of Gilligan's Island that centered around mind reading. The show ran for 3 seasons from 1964-1967 and featured the comic adventures of 7 castaways on an uncharted island. Typical plotlines involved their efforts to get rescued and zany schemes by Gilligan that would go awry. But to my knowledge, none of the 98 episodes had a storyline focused on mind reading or telepathic abilities.

It's probably the closest I can remember seeing an LLM get to saying "I don't know". "I don't believe there was" at least acknowledges the possibility of being incorrect and should prompt a careful user to do further research.

[0] Also interesting is that one of the article's comments shows Opus giving the correct episode title but incorrect details. So ... mixed bag.




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