Talk: frontier models still reason like toddlers

Andrew Dai of Elorian argues frontier models pattern-match rather than reason: shown part of a chessboard and asked how many white squares are visible, a model answers 32 because chessboards have 32 white squares. The same pattern matching that makes models good at naming flowers hurts them elsewhere.
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