Comment by kvdveer
1 day ago
In a true competitive Turing test, these reasoning pitfalls could be included in the system prompt, there are not that many of them. The tester would need to find a novel reasoning pitfall, but those aren't uncommon among humans either, so that would not make a very useful differentiator.
Another approach could be to probe the helpfulness of an AI. A human would likely not comply with a request to write a sonnet about tangerines.
I don't understand what you mean that "there are not that many of them". The models, even the best ones, still have clear problems with certain kinds of real world reasoning, and it's not a known, closed set. With some prodding and knowing this error mode, I think it's not hard to trip any model with a novel reasoning error like this.
And no, I don't think humans would make the same errors, the key reason for this failure mode is that there are some facts of human day to day life that are so mundane that they are virtually never written about, thus making them an ideal combination of universal human experiences but out of distribution for the LLMs.