This a very well put comment with a great analogy. A new emerging paradigm of action-driven LLMs is taking the approach of using the reasoning abilities of LLMs to drive agents that can take actions, interact with other tools and computer programs, and perform useful tasks like autonomously programming, customer support, etc
And I think you’re right when you say that they’re lacking in recursive thinking abilities. However, their reasoning abilities are pretty excellent which is why when you prompt them to think step-by-step, or break down problems to them, they correctly output the right answer.
And I think you’re right when you say that they’re lacking in recursive thinking abilities. However, their reasoning abilities are pretty excellent which is why when you prompt them to think step-by-step, or break down problems to them, they correctly output the right answer.