[frontman1988]

ChatGPT-4 gives the answer pretty easily:

To cross the river with the goat using the boat, you would follow these steps:

1. *Get into the boat with the goat.* 2. *Row to the other side of the river.* 3. *Disembark with the goat.*

Now, both you and the goat are on the other side of the river.

[ModernMech]

But I didn't ask it how to get the goat to the other side; the goat is a red herring.