233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper

This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

"So, our argument is NOT "humans don't have any limits, but #LRMs do, and that's why they aren't intelligent". But based on what we observe from their thoughts, their process is not logical and intelligent."

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms?r=lw58&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

#LLM
#AI
#Apple
#theillusionofthinking
#Applestudy

A knockout blow for LLMs?

LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

Marcus on AI
The illusion of "The Illusion of Thinking"

Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the…