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Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

75 points · 159 comments · leopoldj

  1. pu_pe · · focus · HN ↗
    This is an ad for the new startup by the author, who will now focus on reasoning models. His insight seems to be that LLMs should make their assumptions explicit first, then map out a search space and provide reasons for why they should take one path or the other.

    I think it's an interesting approach but the overall discussion about reasoning is really pedantic. What the author is describing here is one approach out of many, and in my opinion it doesn't cover what humans colloquially think of when they hear reasoning (while the output from a chain of thought sometimes does).

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