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1Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
Abstract:
Julia has two sisters and one brother. How many sisters does her brother Martin have? Solving this tiny puzzle requires a bit of thinking. You might mentally picture the family of three girls and one boy and then realize that the boy has three sisters. Or you might figure out a more general rule: Any boy in the family will have one more sister than any girl. In other words, the answer to such a puzzle isn't something you immediately know, like Paris is the capital of France; it requires reasoning, a central feature of human intelligence, and one that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, for all their impressive behavior, struggle with.
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