Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

Re:Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thin... by p1esk on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:32AM (#42004274)

I personally cannot “figure out quaternions as a solution to gimbal locking or the theory of relativity”. I’m just not as smart as Einstein. Does it mean I’m not capable of reasoning? Because it seems that’s what you are implying. If you truly believe that then I’m not sure how I could argue anything - after all, that would require reasoning ability.

Does having this conversation require reasoning abilities? If no, then what are we doing? If yes, then LLMs can reason too.

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Re:Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thin... by lovich on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:04AM (#42004447)

Cool, you've established a floor with yourself as a baseline. You still haven't explained how LLMs are capable of reaching this level of logic.

I'm also fully willing to argue that you, personally are less competent than an LLM if this is the level of logic you are bringing to the conversation

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and want to use that are proof that humans and LLMs are equivalent at reasoning

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, but that doesn't mean I don't humans are capable of more

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