I was really on your side here when I tried this...until I was one up'd.
> What is the last business day of the month?
The last business day of the month is typically the last weekday of the month (excluding weekends). For example, the last business day of August 2020 would be Friday, August 28th.
> But August has 31 days, and August 31st, 2020 is a Monday.
In this case, the last business day of the month would be Friday, August 28th.
> Why not Monday, the 31st?
Monday, August 31st, 2020 is a public holiday in some countries, so it would not be considered a business day. Therefore, the last business day of the month would be the previous Friday, August 28th.
Aug 31 is a public holiday in like, Kyrgyzstan. It just got it wrong to start with, then made up something believable in response to you asking "why not?"
FWIW I agree with you, but was attempting to provoke the discussion of "what is intelligence" before strictly taking that opposing stance to the parent comment.
Neural nets (particularly RNNs) can emulate arbitrary turing machines, so therefore are capable of said logical processing. LLMs might have to be coaxed into doing this, but with enough trying you can get them to be more rational/logical rules focused.
Give it a go - I'm sure you can come up with some math problem that is un-google-able. Use chain-of-thought prompting to have it solve a quintic polynomial or something.
I think this (being the result I imagine you'll get when you try the above) demonstrates that LLMs have learned the capability for general reasoning, even if they don't always automatically use it.
> What is the last business day of the month?
The last business day of the month is typically the last weekday of the month (excluding weekends). For example, the last business day of August 2020 would be Friday, August 28th.
> But August has 31 days, and August 31st, 2020 is a Monday.
In this case, the last business day of the month would be Friday, August 28th.
> Why not Monday, the 31st?
Monday, August 31st, 2020 is a public holiday in some countries, so it would not be considered a business day. Therefore, the last business day of the month would be the previous Friday, August 28th.