GPT-4 can perform sophisticated common sense reasoning, such as solving the paint-room problem (if yellow fades to white in a year and you want all rooms white in 2 years, paint blue rooms yellow), demonstrating reasoning abilities that were previously hard for symbolic AI
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Geoffrey HintonEvidence Quote
“I asked it I want all the rooms in my house to be white at present the some white room some blue rooms and some yellow rooms and yellow paint Fades to White within a year so what should I do if I want them all to be white in two years time and it said you should paint the blue rooms yellow”
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Possible End of Humanity from AI? Geoffrey Hinton at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital— Joseph RaczynskiCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:48:51 PM
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