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by koakuma-chan 419 days ago
This is a logical problem that requires reasoning. Bring the fact that Barry White’s mother is Sadie Marie Carter into the context and it should then be able to infer who Sadie Marie Carter’s son is.
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You're saying it requires reasoning, then suggesting a non-reasoning based solution (steering the model in-context)

Reasoning doesn't solve it. O3 thinks and comes up empty, and O4-mini thinks and then hallucinates much worse than even 4o did: https://chatgpt.com/share/680e7a5c-ae3c-8004-bff9-5c8a0215a1...

The model only knows who the mother of Barry White is. It doesn’t know who the son of Sadie Marie Carter is. By reasoning I meant that it could figure out who the son of Sadie Marie Carter is if you brought into the context that Sadie Marie Carter is the mother of Barry White beforehand.