Humans do not stumble over this. Did you read the article?

They present a normal maths problem then add a random cat fact to the end or the start. Humans dont struggle with that...

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patall 4 days ago | parent [-]

Print out only the text and hand it, without any context, to a random other human and look what happens. I highly doubt that more than 25% will answer the question, and not because they are incapable of answering it.

What you forget is that you have context. Like: 'Look, LLMs are not able to answer this question!'. While you post the text without any context to the LLM.

	▲	kenjackson 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not sure how many more himans get the question wrong with the cat text, but I’m fairly certain it will extend their time to answer probably more than it does an LLM.