Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Important new study from Apple

Marcus on AI
@ShadowJonathan not to sound antiintellectual, but isn't it kinda obvious that a *text* generator, no matter how complex, can't do abstract reasoning?
@halva @ShadowJonathan yeah, I appreciate the demonstrations, but this feels a little like, "New study confirms bicycles cannot fly."
@graue @halva @ShadowJonathan yeah, but there's a lot of people out there saying bicycles can fly. Sometimes you gotta do the science just to have something on paper to smack the idiots with.