Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

October 2, 2026 · 8:00 am 1 sources

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• Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
  MIT Technology Review · October 2, 2026 08:00
  On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…