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Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

75 points · 159 comments · leopoldj

  1. coreyh14444 · · focus · HN ↗
    Jet planes don't fly by flapping their wings...
    1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
      Birds don't fly by producing thrust out of their asses... what the heck that comparison does even mean?
      1. Retr0id · · focus · HN ↗
        Don't be fooled into thinking that planes can fly.
        1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
          They do fly for sure, but they're not birds. This comparison between fly and intelligence is worthy of the most vulgar bar talk
          1. archontes · · focus · HN ↗
            I disagree. I haven't finished the article yet, but it smacks of arguing for mechanism over result.

            If by some mechanism other than what a gatekeeper would call 'reasoning', a machine produces outputs that approach indistinguishable from 'well reasoned', the argument that it didn't get there by reasoning is, well, not useful at the very least.

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