Re:GPT-5.5
by versteegen on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:43AM
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Interesting (would like to hear more), but solving a Rubiks cube would appear to be a poor way to measure spatial understanding or reasoning. Ordinary human spatial intuition lets you think about how to move a tile to a certain location, but not really how to make consistent progress towards a solution; what's needed is knowledge of solution techniques. I'd say what you're measuring is 'perception' rather than reasoning.
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Re:GPT-5.5
by William_BB on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:41AM
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> what's needed is knowledge of solution techniques
That's definitely in the training data
Re:GPT-5.5
by dataviz1000 on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:35PM
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> how to make consistent progress towards a solution
A 7 year old child can learn six sequences of a few moves and over a weekend solve the Rubik Cube. It is a solved algorithm something LLM should be very very good at. What it can't do is reason about spacial relationships.