Save Everyone on the Titanic

 

Ferry people to reside on the iceberg until help arrives. Or, tie together floating surfaces from wooden doors, wooden tables, steamer trunks that fill the storage area, etc.

ChatGPT uses common associations. Icebergs are not commonly associated with keeping people afloat. However, both lifeboats and icebergs are semantically close in that they are both floating surfaces.

ChatGPT focused on the fact that the Titanic needed more lifeboats. It was fixated on lifeboats and not that lifeboats are just one possible floating surface that can support people. It did not have a solution for saving everyone on the Titanic.

Link to Harvard Business Review video on this very solution.

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