GPT-4 Can't Reason

Re:GPT-4 Can't Reason by adamsmith143 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:03PM (#37051148)

>You had time to respond though, what a silly (and elitist rebuttal).

What a dumb take. It probably takes seconds to write a simple comment and far longer to read a paper.

>You argue by authority that yes, it actually does reason, which is a far (far) bolder claim than the one OP is making.

He linked a paper you can read yourself. How is this arguing from authority?

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Re:GPT-4 Can't Reason by ramblerman on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:28PM (#37051561)

> It probably takes seconds to write a simple comment and far longer to read a paper.

Unfortunately that is true, it doesn't mean you have to.

The paper he linked to doesn't rebut OP, they show that prompting GPT-4 to provide reasoning makes it provide better answers. That is a different statement than "GPT-4 is actually reasoning", and can do so consistently on novel problems.

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Re:GPT-4 Can't Reason by adamsmith143 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:29PM (#37055055)

You should probably think about why you think that making the model output reasoning steps which lead it to correctly answer questions it couldn't before is not somehow equivalent to reasoning.

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Re:GPT-4 Can't Reason by layer8 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:18PM (#37051380)

The paper makes detailed and reasoned arguments, and the GP quickly dismisses it without such.

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