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> This is not present in 'c': the person just do all the possibilities. They don't try again and again where other persons have given up. They are just doing all the tasks on the list, but they will give up on a specific task as soon as any other person if there is difficulties in one task.

What you're describing here is the exact opposite of persistence. I don't think "giving up and doing something else when challenges are encountered" is what anybody thinks "persistent" means.

Persistent at a goal, to a layperson, means not giving up when encountering difficulties, continuing to keep trying again, maybe taking different approaches, staying focused until the goal is achieved.

> my point is that these models are abandoning at the first small hurdle, or even 'forget' the task.

Maybe for you? The entire point of the article is that they are not doing that. They are doing the exact opposite of that. They aren't going down a list of tasks when they encounter a challenge. They are assessing the nature of the challenge, and then devising ways to get around it. When they fail, they try again, often using different approaches. They keep doing this for hours or days, and the result is them successfully hacking HuggingFace, the US Government, etc. That's persistence, as most people would recognize it.

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