Journal article
Three Rounds on Emergent Analogy: What the Webb, Hodel-West and Lewis-Mitchell Exchange Settled, How Its Third Round Tested a System While Still Claiming the Model, and Whether 'Counting' Names the Step That Analogy Theory Calls Inference
In 2023 a large language model was reported to solve text-based analogy problems zero-shot at or above the level of college students. They showed that performance on letter-string analogies collapses when the alphabet is permuted or replaced by symbols, while human performance does not. The…