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One example is the three killers problem There are three killers in a room, someone enters the room and kills one of them, how many killers are now in the ro
by Lerc 2y ago
One example is the three killers problem
There are three killers in a room, someone enters the room and kills one of them, how many killers are now in the room?
Apart from the basic reasoning errors of small models (where they come up with all sorts of numbers), larger models that fail, do so because they fail to take into account that killing makes a killer. Some models succeed at this but it is unclear if this is because they are familiar with this specific problem.
The model has to make the distinction between that and
There are three fish in a room, someone enters the room and kills one of them, how many fish are now in the room?
or
There are three fish in a room, someone enters the room and kills one of them, how many killers are now in the room?
In these examples the word kills is pushed in one direction or another, but when it serves double duty in the original problem it can notice one premise and miss the other.
It's interesting task in frustration to try and get a model that gets it wrong to COT out of that particular error.
- throwthrowuknow 2y agoYes, the problem would be due to attention being limited to the context. Reasoning requires constructing a model that can be referred to and updated. This is what CoT attempts to do but it is limited when expressed in natural language and being append only.