Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated(news.mit.edu)

  a man with a wolf and a cabbage wants to cross a river/ There is a boat but the man can only bring one more item beside himself at a time. What are the steps the man needs to do in order to cross the river?

  1.Man takes the sheep across the river (leaving the wolf 
 and the cabbage on the original side).
  2.Man returns alone.
  3.Man takes the cabbage across the river.
  4.Man leaves the cabbage on the other side and takes the sheep back
  5.Man takes the wolf across the river.
  6.Man returns alone.
  7.Man takes the sheep across the river.
  8.This way, at no point are the wolf and the sheep left alone together, nor are the sheep and the cabbage left alone together.

  Oops, my mistake! Let’s solve the puzzle correctly with a man, a wolf, and a cabbage:

  1.Man takes the wolf across the river (leaving the cabbage on the original side).
  2.Man returns alone.
  3.Man takes the cabbage across the river.
  4.Man leaves the cabbage on the other side and takes the wolf back.
  5.Man takes the man across the river.
  6.Man returns alone.
  7.Man takes the wolf across the river.
  8.Now, both the man and the wolf are across the river, with no danger to the cabbage.