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by Dzugaru 1181 days ago
> but could be fixed

How? The problem is known for a while, for example this article [0] mentions it (as Chain of Thought reasoning). You could think that just having a scratchpad of tokens is enough - you can arguably plan, backtrack and rewrite there [1], right? But this doesn't really work, at least yet - maybe because it wasn't trained for that - and maybe ChatGPT massive logs (probably available only for OpenAI) can help. But the Microsoft report [2] suggests we need a different architerture and/or algorithms? They mention lack of planning and retrospective thinking as a huge problem for GPT-4. Maybe you know some articles on the ideas how to fix this? Backtracking, trying again seems to be linked to human thought - and very well can give us AGI.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/120fi8e/chatgpt_4_...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

2 comments

You may be shocked to hear this but dijkstra’s short path algorithm is the technical answer to this question. We just don’t use it because it’s expensive.
Language chains or tool use where it can also call on itself to solve subproblems. If you don't have to do just one round of LLM interaction you can do complex stuff.