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In some cases, whether an LLM can complete a puzzle is a matter of scale. One study from researchers at Apple found that LLMs can ace simple versions of the Tower of Hanoi problem, which involves moving a stack of disks one at a time without ever putting a larger disk atop a smaller one, and river-crossing puzzles, in which a group of people must traverse a river according to certain rules. But only up to a point: As the number of disks or people hits six and higher, the models began to falter. <\/p>\n
In another study, researchers at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and the Allen Institute for AI observed that LLMs struggle similarly with logic grid puzzles, which require deducing the attributes of a set of individuals from a list of clues. The Apple paper went viral, but commentators questioned whether the results reveal a unique limitation of LLM reasoning\u2014or just that it\u2019s normal to make errors as complexity piles up.<\/p>\n
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