LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data - eviltoast
  • froztbyte@awful.systems
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    1 month ago

    there’s a lot of people (especially here, but not only here) who have had the insight to see this being the case, but there’s also been a lot of boosters and promptfondlers (ie. people with a vested interest) putting out claims that their precious word vomit machines are actually thinking

    so while this may confirm a known doubt, rigorous scientific testing (and disproving) of the claims is nonetheless a good thing

    • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      1 month ago

      No they do not im afraid, hell I didnt even know that even ELIZA caused people to think it could reason (and this worried the creator) until a few years ago.