GPT-4 has a theory of mind

[John Clark]

If you've ever seen the movie The Princess Bride (great movie by the way) you may remember the humorous "battle of wits" sequence in which one of the characters tries to figure out which of two goblets contains a deadly poison, he uses an incredibly convoluted chain of and iterated deductions about what another person is thinking and claims to have deduced the answer, but GPT-4 had no trouble in figuring out that it was silly circular logic and in such a situation all you can do is make a guess with 50-50 odds of success. So much for those who claim GPT-4 is just a statistical engine that can only make probabilistic guesses as to what the next word in a sentence probably should be!

GPT-4 Theory of Mind: The "Battle of Wits" experiment on reasoning circular logic

And here is the entire battle of wits sequence from the movie:

The Princess Bride (Movie CLIP) The Battle of Wits

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