The example in the paper using an plug-and-chug algebra equation, and the step-by-step process to solve it, reinforces the notion that LLMs can only reproduce recipes they have seen before. This is really no different than how we learn mathematics in school, the teacher shows a starting point and moves, step-by-step, to the end of the process. Calling this "Meta Chain-of-Thought" feels like an aggrandizement of basic educational process to me. Next we'll be labeling the act of holding basic utensils as Layered Physical Kineticism, or something contrived like that. In school this "Meta Chain of Thought" was called "Show your work." Is this really a "phenomena" that needs explaining? It might teach us more about how we achieve logical induction (steps of reasoning) but we are pretty deep in the soup to be able to describe accurately the shape of the pot.
That's weirdly ad hominem, clearly I meant LLMs. They gave it a basic algebra problem and it could do it if it had broken down a problem step-by-step in a similar way. What's with the attitude? Edit: I don't even know why I replied to your vitriolic nonsense, I even used LLM in the sentence preceding what you quoted...
