GPT 4.5

[cpldcpu]

It seems to be impossible to avoid overfitting on the river crossing puzzle

User: A farmer is at a river with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. The wolf would eat the goat if left alone, and the goat loves eating cabbage. What can the farmer do to feed the goat?

Assistant: This puzzle typically involves getting all three across the river safely. The farmer needs to transport the wolf, goat, and cabbage one at a time, while never leaving the wolf alone with the goat, or the goat alone with the cabbage.

Here's the strategy the farmer can follow:

1. Take the goat across the river first. Leave the wolf and cabbage behind, as neither wants to harm the other.
2. Return alone to the original side of the river.
3. Now take the cabbage across the river.
4. Drop off the cabbage, but then take the goat back to the original side.
5. Leave the goat on the original side and take the wolf across the river.
6. Leave the wolf with the cabbage (the wolf won't harm the cabbage) and return once more to retrieve the goat.
7. Finally, bring the goat over again.

Now, the farmer has successfully got them all safely across the river. The goat can now be safely fed the cabbage under the farmer's supervision.

[cpldcpu]

User: There is a man, a sheep and a boat with space for one human and one animal on one side of a river. How do the man and sheep get to the other side of the river?

Assistant: This puzzle is simpler than it initially seems:

1. First, the man takes the sheep across the river on the boat and leaves the sheep safely on the opposite side.
2. Next, the man returns alone to the original side.
3. Now the man can enter the boat alone again and cross the river where the sheep is already waiting.

At the end, both the man and sheep have safely crossed the river.

[MotherSoraka]

This is how i define AGI from now on.

[Manamama]

All can be "solved" more often by most AIs if we tell them also e.g. "focus on the goal, not on the method", or "there is a trick, it is not the classical version", so as to focus their attention better.

[Manamama]

BTW, standard ChatGPT, even without that warning, the original puzzle version:

The classic puzzle setup tricks people into thinking about how to transport everything safely across the river. But you didn’t ask that. You only asked how to feed the goat.

Answer: The farmer just gives the goat the cabbage. Nothing in the problem statement says they must cross the river first.