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Having a brain that still functions well enough and a ready stock of real-world experiences, I am not a frequent flier to AI destinations, but a confusion that happened (to someone else) the other day prompted me to see if ChatGPT would have been any less confused than something I witnessed in the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was sitting waiting for a bus at the \u307f\u306a\u3068\u8d64\u5341\u5b57\u75c5\u9662\u5165\u53e3 (Minato Red Cross Hospital Entrance) bus stop, when I saw a clearly confused young foreign woman looking alternately at her mobile phone and the name of the bus stop at which she had just gotten off a bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing her confusion and that she was on crutches, I asked her where she was looking to go.<\/p>\n\n\n

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She pointed to the name of the bus stop and was wondering why she couldn’t see the hospital. Where were they hiding what was surely a substantial medical facility? The answer to the mystery lies in the way bus stops are sometimes named, and in the fact that other buses make a stop at a bus stop named \u307f\u306a\u3068\u8d64\u5341\u5b57\u75c5\u9662, without the \u5165\u53e3, which means entrance and is located right at the entrance to the hospital. Why does is a bus stop named XYZ Entrance not at the entrance and one without “Entrance” at the actual entrance to XYZ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Entrance in the bus stop name refers to it being at the entrance to the road<\/em> leading to the hospital and shared by at least three bus routes that do not go to the hospital entrance itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would ChatGPT, in all it’s wisdom, have solved this problem before forcing someone on crutches to wait for yet another bus or walk what would be a considerable and perhaps annoying distance on crutches?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My prompt to ChatGPT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a bus stop in Yokohama with the name \u8d64\u5341\u5b57\u75c5\u9662\u5165\u53e3. Where is that bus stop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what it came back with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bus stop \u8d64\u5341\u5b57\u75c5\u9662\u5165\u53e3<\/strong> (\u6b63\u78ba\u306b\u306f\u300c\u307f\u306a\u3068\u8d64\u5341\u5b57\u75c5\u9662\u5165\u53e3\u300d) is located in Yokohama’s Naka Ward, serving the Yokohama Minato Red Cross Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Wow, it could give me the formal name of the hospital !]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the detailed information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n