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MIT Technology Review: LLMs don't actually reason

Original: Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

MIT Technology Review has published a piece arguing that large language models do not genuinely reason, warning readers not to be fooled by outputs that look like step-by-step thinking. The article, which quickly reached the top of Hacker News, fuels the ongoing debate over whether current AI systems perform real reasoning or sophisticated pattern matching.

Why now: Renewed expert pushback on claims that AI models can reason, a hotly contested question in AI research.

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