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> try to figure out what went wrong

LLMs don't do this. They can't think. If you just one for like five minutes it's obvious that just because the text on the screen says "Sorry, I made I mistake, there are actually 5 r's in strawberry", doesn't mean there's any thought behind it.

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I mean, you can literally watch their thought process. They try to figure out reasons why something went wrong, and then identify solutions. Often in ways that require real deduction and creativity. And have quite a high success rate.

If that's not thinking, then I don't know what is.

You're arguing in circles. They don't "try to figure out reasons" because there is no concept of "trying", "figuring out" or "reasons".

> If that's not thinking, then I don't know what is.

How about actual thinking, you know, what humans and to a lesser extent animals do?

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