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Re:Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thin... by rileymat2 on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:15PM (#42003142)
How do people fair on unconventional structures? I am reminded of that old riddle involving a the mother being the doctor after a car crash.
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Re:Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thin... by adwn on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:31AM (#42004270)
No idea why you've been downvoted, because that's a relevant and true comment. A more complex example would be the Monty Hall problem [1], for which even some very intelligent people will intuitively give the wrong answer, whereas symbolic reasoning (or Monte Carlo simulations) leads to the right conclusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

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