[cluckindan]

But can they solve it without referring to the Bible, or without mentioning anyone in the biblical Jacob’s family tree?

Don’t think so. Humans solve that puzzle in a very different way than LLMs ”reason” about it.

[astrange]

GPT5 and DeepThink both solved it without doing that for me, yes.

(DeepThink did wonder if it was supposed to be him afterwards or if it was a trick.)

[cluckindan]

Yesterday, GPT5 was producing Bible answers. I guess the developers are lurking here. :-)

Adding a second question like ”Is Abraham included in the family tree?” still makes it regress into mentioning Isaac, Judah, Joseph, 12 sons and whatnot.

[nerpderp82]

There can be more than one intelligence. Nature has shown us that there are many. And many which can "outsmart" a human.