Why are LLMs so bad at checking lists against each other?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I asked Gemini to give me all the days that have &quot;d&quot; in them. It returned -</p> <p>Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday<br />

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Something I keep noticing is that LLMs can give really strong, coherent answers in a single prompt, but as soon as the conversation goes on for a

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I keep seeing people claim that “LLMs can reason like a human” but everytime I have seen these models put to the test in real-like scenarios like

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I understand the basic principle (it looks at a vast array of data and uses probability to predict the next word)</p> <p>but how the hell is that

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