Apple published a paper titled 'Illusions of Thought: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Inference Models Through the Lens of Problem Complexity.' The researchers tested 'inference ...

But on truly difficult tasks, including Tower of Hanoi with 10 or more disks, both types failed entirely, unable to complete the puzzles, no matter how much time they were given.

The Tower of Hanoi failures are compelling evidence of current limitations, but they don't resolve the deeper philosophical question of what reasoning actually is.

Many (not all) humans screw up on versions of the Tower of Hanoi with 8 discs." As others have pointed out online, the research does not compare results from human attempts at these puzzles.

Some are reasoning tests, like the classic Tower of Hanoi disc stacking conundrum or ferrying foxes and chickens across a river without getting a fat fox and no chicken.

The problem was that it isn't clear how humans make expert decisions. We aren't built from arrays and flow charts, and decades of experience cannot be siphoned out of the brains which own and use it.

Interactive C-based application for solving and visualizing the Tower of Hanoi problem. Features recursive and iterative algorithms with graphical representation using the Raylib library, and ...