There’s a Reason that AI Can’t Reason

As predicted: “Based on this analysis, the paper concludes that, despite its occasional flashes of analytical brilliance, GPT-4 at present is utterly incapable of reasoning.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03762v2

There’s no reason, at present, to think that generative AI based on what amounts to an extremely large and fast predictive text machine has any understanding of what it is doing or any capability to reason. Don’t believe the hype.

There's a Reason that AI Can't Reason

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