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by SonOfLilit 239 days ago
Have you tried giving it basic logic that isn't in its training data?

I have. gpt-3.5-instruct required a lot of prompting to keep it on track. Sonnet 4 got it in one.

Terrence Tao, the most prominent mathematician alive, says he's been getting LLM assistance with his research. I would need about a decade of training to be able to do any math in a day that Tao can't do in his head in less than 5 seconds.

LLMs are suffer from terrible, uh, dementia-like distraction, but they can definitely do logic.