I've tried a few times to develop prompts which make ChatGPT interrupt its monologue spontaneously and issue corrections to itself. I haven't got this to work yet.
A human could figure this out, once their mistake had been pointed out to them, but I'm not sure GPT4 could.
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Given this new information, where the lion eats cabbage and the goat eats lions, you can follow these steps to get them all across the river safely:
Take the lion across the river first and leave it on the other side.
Go back across the river and get the cabbage.
Take the cabbage across the river, but when you arrive, take the lion back with you to the original side.
Leave the lion on the original side and take the goat across the river.
Leave the goat with the cabbage on the other side and go back to get the lion.
Finally, take the lion across the river again.
Now, all three items - the cabbage, goat, and lion - are safely on the other side of the river.
The vast majority of people might make the mistake once, yes, but would be able to reason better once they had the trick pointed out them. Imo it is an interesting anecdote that GPT-4 can't adjust its reasoning around this fairly simple trick.