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by blueorange8 1184 days ago
If I ask it like this, if gets it right:

I have a chair in front of the TV and one in front of the computer. I placed a watch on the floor beneath the chair in front of the TV. Then, I swapped the positions of the chairs. Where is the watch now?

After swapping the positions of the chairs, the watch is now on the floor beneath the chair that was initially in front of the computer, since that chair is now in front of the TV.

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This is not a competition in getting it to answer right, though. It’s that the instances where it answers wrong demonstrate its lack of inner mental model of what it is supposedly reasoning about, as well as a lack of meta-awareness. I think we tend to underestimate what mere linguistic correlation is capable of producing, and are too quick to attribute intelligent reasoning and an inner mental model to it.