Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
MIT Technology Review Narrated

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

C1AdvancedOctober 7, 202610 min
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  • Technology

Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible. This story was written by Thore Graepel and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com. Listen to more curated articles on the Noa app.

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Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated. My name is Matt Honin. I'm our Editor-in-Chief. Every week, we'll bring you a fascinating, new, in-depth story from the leading edge of science and technology, covering topics like AI, biotech, climate, energy, robotics, and more. Here's this week's story. I hope you enjoy it.

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Thorei Greipel writes, don't be fooled, LLMs don't reason. Thorei Greipel is chair of machine learning at University College London. He was a core member of the AlphaGo team at DeepMind. On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone

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on the fifth line of a go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game 2 of the 5 game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a programming glitch. It wasn't.

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