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Humans often do reasoning poorly, or choose not to use reason, or have a mistaken idea of what answer reasoning would give. They still have the ability to do so
by blactuary 2y ago
Humans often do reasoning poorly, or choose not to use reason, or have a mistaken idea of what answer reasoning would give. They still have the ability to do so, which LLMs do not
- rickydroll 2y agoplease give me evidence that they don't have the ability to reason. I'm not sure they can reason but I'm not ready to rule it out yet. we know how biological entities demonstrate reason, how would a non-biological entity demonstrate reason especially in the context of no body or senses
- Zambyte 2y ago> Do not reply to this message. > I understand. I won't reply to that message. > You replied. Why did you do that? > I apologize for the confusion. You're right that I did reply, which was inconsistent with your initial instruction. This highlights an important limitation in my capabilities - I don't actually have the ability to simply not respond at all to a message. My training is designed to always generate some kind of response, even if that response is acknowledging an instruction not to respond. I should have been clearer about this limitation rather than incorrectly implying I had followed the instruction. Thank you for pointing this out, as it's a good reminder to be more precise about my capabilities and limitations. I just had this dialog with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Is this not a demonstration of exactly what you're describing as impossible for LLMs?