[eaglefield]

IMO the word intelligence doesn't seem a good description for the thing LLMs possess, they perform pretty well on some tests measuring it. But they're also sometimes wrong in ways intelligent beings (humans) never are. Like this[0] riddle about boats and farmers i stumbled over recently:

> A farmer stands on the side of a river with a sheep. There is a boat on the riverbank that has room for exactly one person and one sheep. How can the farmer get across with the sheep in the fewest number of trips?

It's obviously riffing on the classic wolf sheep lettuce riddle, but I don't think that's gonna fool any humans into answering anything but the obvious. ChatGPT-4o on the other hand thinks it'll take three trips.

They perform a good approximation of intelligence most of the time but the fact that their error pattern is so distinct from humans in some ways, suggests that we probably shouldn't attribute intelligence to them. At least in a human sense of the word.

[falcor84]

I just tried it with chatgpt and got what seems like the right answer:

The farmer can get across the river with the sheep in one trip. Here's how:

1. The farmer and the sheep get into the boat. 2. They both cross the river together.

Since the boat can hold one person and one sheep, they can make the journey in a single trip. The fewest number of trips required is just one.

[eaglefield]

That's fair. I get the wrong answer on the gpt3 and gpt4-o models, but there's always some uncertainty involved in these gaps. When I appended "Consider your answer carefully." to my prompt, it answered as though the goal was for only the sheep to get across, and that the farmer had to get back to the original shore.