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LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paraphrasing Neil Gaiman, LLMs don't give you information; they give you information shaped sentences.

They don't encode semantics. They encode the statistical likelihood that each token will follow a given sequence of tokens.