Already lost to me is the LinkedIn post that brought this to my attention, but searching for that story, I found an article that told some more of the background.
https://mindmatters.ai/2024/05/a-man-a-boat-and-a-goat-and-a-chatbot/
The link between the original post and the classic non-fiction work “Gödel Escher Bach” is the icing on the cake.
You’re familiar with the concept of the puzzle where a man has to cross a river with various things: perhaps a goat, a wolf and a cabbage; but only a certain number of items will fit in the boat.
Watching the different AI’s variously make a mess of this puzzle when asked to solve a much simpler version sparked no small amount of joy.