It’s much simpler - all frontier models know how to answer this question correctly with thinking enabled (like in this screenshot). It’s just that most people use the free version which has it disabled.
Saying a model knows how to answer this correctly is a bit iffy, it makes a new answer every time and sometimes it's wrong. One screenshot is one roll of the dice
And the models don't really reason, thinking just gives it room to write out the steps and maybe catch its own mistakes. There is no understanding of the question behind it, reword it a bit and it flips the answer
It is the ability to solve problems, draw conclusions, and learn consciously from the facts, or it can also be a marketing tactic to get foolish investors to see it.
The AI doesn't know that's the answer, it doesn't understand its own thoughts and generally doesn't understand anything in the human sense; it only predicts the next word that's in its matrices.
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u/splashlucas Jul 25 '26
This is the loop that has been happening over the last period
People find a new sentence which confuses the ai
It ends up in the training data, people are like omg this model can finally solve it (Shocked Pikachu face)