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# Remember, the computers don’t think
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/remember-the-computers-dont-think/
- Published: 2024-10-14T22:25:12.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-14T22:25:12.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: [Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/llms-cant-perform-genuine-logical-reasoning-apple-researchers-suggest/?ref=birchtree.me)

> The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper aren't completely new in the world of AI research. [Other](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Can-large-language-models-reason-and-plan-Kambhampati/f531d1a681ed12fd582767133318d0728316a0ae?ref=birchtree.me) recent [papers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10498?ref=birchtree.me) have similarly suggested that LLMs don't actually perform formal reasoning and instead mimic it with probabilistic pattern-matching of the closest similar data seen in their vast training sets.

LLMs are amazing technology that are genuinely useful for some things, but I think people get lost when they start to talk about them “thinking” for themselves. Maybe there is a for of computer in the future that can “think” in the way we do, but I simply don’t see evidence that LLMs as they exist today are doing that.