The simpler explanation is that GPT-3 didn’t understand the pattern, got the first few mostly wrong, and more easily grasped the pattern “Eugene tells John he is incorrect” than the pattern of balanced/imbalanced parentheses.
The simpler explanation is that GPT-3 didn’t understand the pattern, got the first few mostly wrong, and more easily grasped the pattern “Eugene tells John he is incorrect” than the pattern of balanced/imbalanced parentheses.