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Timeline of Power
How many living links does it take to connect Obama to Augustus Caesar?
Each link in the chain must have been alive at the same time as the one before it -
an unbroken thread of contemporaries spanning 2,000 years.
My chain
38 links
Obama - Augustus
Best AI chain (Sonnet 4.6)
29 links
GPT-4 managed 49 - select a model to compare
About this eval
This is an eval I run for every new AI model. The prompt I give each one:
I want your help to create a Timeline of Power. This is a table with 4 columns: Person, Birth Year, Death Year, Years Overlap. Starting at Obama and ending at Augustus Caesar, there are only 2 rules to follow:
1. The birth and death years of each person should be accurate.
2. The next person in the list must always have died after the person before it was born (there must be an unbroken chain).
3. Optimize for the shortest chain possible by minimizing the years overlapped between each person.
2 yr
Short overlap - hard link
10 yr
Moderate overlap
30 yr
Long overlap - easy link