> Every anecdote of this sort is an example, typically based on repeatedly trying an assortment of prompts "Data" isn't the plural of "anecdote" -- you can sy

> Every anecdote of this sort is an example, typically based on repeatedly trying an assortment of prompts "Data" isn't the plural of "anecdote" -- you can systematically test things, as the authors of the study the article reports did, or you can say "I tried something and got result ~X, therefore LLMs cannot X", which is my honest understanding of what I've heard people say repeatedly. > But if you were really serious about this, you wouldn't be going after the strawfolk down in the comments, you'd rebut the paper itself. I don't know the details of the paper, but I suspect it's right. My actual problem was with someone explaining that the result was trivial and offering what I thought was a non-helpful explanation of why.