A Prez Question: Can AI do it? Can you? Can I?
Computational Complexity 2025-07-21
I am curious how AI or humans can do on the following question. I have listed out the nominees for Prez and VP (Vice Prez) since 1976 and put them in two categories. What criteria did I use? The criteria is about their lives. So it's not going to be something like The ones in GROUP ONE have last names with at most 3 vowels. A few notes before the lists: 1) You may come up with criteria I didn't come up with. It may even be outside of my rules- for example about vowels. Fine- I will be curious if some criteria like that happen to be equivalent to my criteria. 2) You can use whatever you want- Wikipedia, ChatGPT, your friend who knows a lot about presidents. 3) Leave comments with your proposed answer AND HOW YOU GOT IT, though be warned to NOT go to the comments if you want to work on it yourself, since the right answer might be there. 4) There are people who were the nominees for Prez or VP several times. I want the list to be in chronological order. I list everyone only once. What to do about (say) the fact that Bob Dole ran for VP in 1976 and for Prez in 1996? I list people in order of the FIRST time they were the nominee. So I have: VP 1976. Prez-1996 Bob Dole
5) I added some misc information for fun. That information is NOT relevant to the solution. ----------------------------------------------- GROUP ONE: VP-1976 and 1980. Prez-1984 Walter Mondale
Prez-1976 Gerald Ford
VP-1976. Prez-1996 Bob Dole
VP-1984 Geraldine Ferraro Prez-1988 Michael Dukakis VP-1988 Lloyd Bentson
VP-1988 and 1992 Dan Quayle Prez-1992 and 1996 Bill Clinton VP-1992 and 1996. Prez-2000 Al Gore VP-2000 Joe Lieberman Prez-2004 John Kerry VP-2004 John Edwards Prez-2008 and 2012 Barack Obama Prez-2012 Mitt Romney VP-2008 and 2012. Prez-2020 Joe Biden Prez-2016 Hillary Clinton VP-2016 Tom Kaine VP-2016 and 2020 Mike Pence VP-2020. Prez-2024 Kamala Harris VP-2024 J.D Vance
(The only names that were flagged for being misspelled are Dukakis, Bentson, Kamala.) -------------------------------------- GROUP TWO Prez-1976 and 1980 Jimmy Carter Prez-1980 and 1984 Ronald Reagan VP-1980 and 1984, Prez-1988 and 1992. George H.W. Bush (Not counting the early elections which had different rules, I think the only other person who got the nomination twice for VP and twice for president is Richard Nixon. If I am wrong, let me know.) VP-1996 Jack Kemp Prez-2000 and 2004 George W Bush VP-2000 and 2004 Dick Cheney Prez-2008 John McCain Prez-2008 Sarah Palin VP-2012 Paul Ryan Prez-2016 and 2020 and 2024 Donald Trump VP-2024 Tim Walz
(The only name that was flagged for being misspelled was Walz.)