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My gut instinct / guess is that there's "stuff" in the brain that is a kind of system for doing the kind of thing that symbolic logic systems do: proposition ma
by cmrdporcupine 2y ago
My gut instinct / guess is that there's "stuff" in the brain that is a kind of system for doing the kind of thing that symbolic logic systems do: proposition management, unification, backtracking, etc. And I think this stuff is probably there from a very early age.
Also, generally, while humans can be really bad at reasoning, when they're shown why they're wrong they're able to retrace their steps and fix -- assuming they're not emotionally attached to some outcome. I'm terrible at math, but if I slow down and have it explained, I'll get it (and then forget it.) LLMs... they don't work that way. Tell them how they're wrong or to explain how they got to some result... forget it, they can't retrace and fix.
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoI posted several conversations with models in this thread. I did -in fact- manage to get them to retrace and fix where needed. GPT-4o was a lot of work. GPT-3 is fast but that was a long conversation catching all its errors (so not posted, but I can if you insist). 4 caught its error almost immediately. Claude-3.5 was on to us from the get-go and didn't need correcting.