Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated, researchers find. Story by Rachel Gordon • 5mo. W hen it comes to artificial intelligence, appearances can be deceiving.

“Reasoning skills are central to many of humanity’s greatest intellectual endeavors: mathematics, philosophy, and science, to name but a few,” the authors wrote.

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