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Just ask it how many r's are in strawberry and you will realize there isn't a lot of reasoning going on here, it's just trickery on top of token generators.


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Workaccount211/04/2025

This is akin to "Show a human an optical illusion that exploits their physiology".

LLM's be like "The dumb humans can't even see the dots"[1]

[1]https://compote.slate.com/images/bdbaa19e-2c8f-435e-95ca-a93...

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adrianmonk11/05/2025

Ask an illiterate person the same thing and they will fail badly too. Is it impossible to have intelligence without literacy? (Bonus: if so, how was writing invented?)

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