Apple Reveals the Limits of Large Language Model Reasoning
2025-06-16
Apple's new paper, "The Illusion of Thinking," challenges assumptions about Large Language Models (LLMs). Through controlled experiments, it reveals a critical threshold where even top-tier LLMs completely fail at complex problems. Performance doesn't degrade gradually; it collapses. Models stop trying, even with sufficient resources, exhibiting a failure of behavior rather than a lack of capacity. Disturbingly, even when completely wrong, the models' outputs appear convincingly reasoned, making error detection difficult. The research highlights the need for truly reasoning systems and a clearer understanding of current model limitations.
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