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LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago (56 children)

Did someone not know this like, pretty much from day one?

Not the idiot executives that blew all their budget on AI and made up for it with mass layoffs - the people interested in it. Was that not clear that there was no “reasoning” going on?

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Isn’t OpenAI saying that o1 has reasoning as a specific selling point?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they do say that, yes. it’s as bullshit as all the other claims they’ve been making

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago

Which is my point, and forgive me, but I believe is the point of the research publication.

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