This came up after a friend was playing a trivia game. We were looking up what colour the wedges were for the different categories in Trivial Pursuit and it came up with this gem.
Search is "trivial pursuit sports and leisure colour"
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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Artificial Ignorance
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In this community we share the best (worst?) examples of Artificial "Intelligence" being completely moronic. Did an AI give you the totally wrong answer and then in the same sentence contradict itself? Did it misquote a Wikipedia article with the exact wrong answer? Maybe it completely misinterpreted your image prompt and "created" something ridiculous.
Post your screenshots here, ideally showing the prompt and the epic stupidity.
Let's keep it light and fun, and embarrass the hell out of these Artificial Ignoramuses.
All languages welcome, but an English explanation would be appreciated to keep a common method of communication. Maybe use AI to do the translation for you...
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This is because there are a ton of different versions out there with different colors. And the reference to "classic" is actually a more recent specific release with that name, not the original oldskool version.
In this case the correct answer should have been that there is no definitive correlation between the colors and the categories, because it depends on the specific release. The wiki stating the colors with that much confidence is simply wrong, it may be there is a edition with those colors, but other editions use other colors.
Ugh, I remember growing up playing the Genus I and Genus II sets, and when Genus III came out with the colors switched it made me angry. I kept picking green because science was my best category -- completely forgetting that it now represented sports & leisure, which is my worst.
Either way you can't trust this top result, because it's dumb.
However, specifically to what you're saying, the part of the Wikipedia article that is highlighted in purple was set by the AI,and directly contradicts the AI. That part of the article was talking about the classic edition of Trivial Pursuit, so there was nothing wrong with the article.