[tiborsaas]

I'm not sure how you define teaching, but for me getting shown an example and then repeating it successfully with another input does mean teaching/learning. I know the model doesn't update though, let's not focus on that now.

If anthropomorphizing bothers you, then we could just use "prompting", but I feel teaching is a good enough approximation here.

[f38zf5vdt]

It's repeating based on what the trained model has given it about situations where instructions possibly similar to the instructions given are specified and which were about reversing strings in general.

If the author messed with temperature and retried their failing prompt enough times, or simply reworded it a little differently, they might also get the correct answer.

[woojoo666]

Isn't that true with humans too? Sometimes rephrasing the question or simply telling them to try again will lead them to the right answer