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This question is probably not the simplest form of the query you intend to receive an answer for.
If you want a descending list of presidents based on their age at inauguration, I know what you want.
If you want a reverse chronological list of presidents, I know what you want.
When you combine/concatenate the two as you have above, I have no idea what you want, nor do I have any way of checking my work if I assume what you want. I know enough about word problems and how people ask questions to know that you probably have a fairly good idea what you want and likely don’t know how ambitious this question is as asked, and I think you and I both are approaching the question with reasonably good faith, so I think you’d understand or at least accommodate my request for clarification and refinement of the question so that it’s less ambiguous.
Can you think of a better way to ask the question?
Now that you’ve refined the question, do LLMs give you the answers you expect more frequently than before?
Do you think LLMs would be able to ask you for clarification in these terms? That capability to ask for clarification is probably going to be as important as other improvements to the LLM, for questions like these that have many possibly correct answers or different interpretations.
Does that make sense? What do you think?
