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LLMs have basic reasoning and a whole lot of memorization. Through that basic reasoning and pruned search, combined with piles of compute, you can prove lots of
by scarmig 3mo ago
LLMs have basic reasoning and a whole lot of memorization. Through that basic reasoning and pruned search, combined with piles of compute, you can prove lots of things. But the memorization of human failure prunes that possibility, and you need to expend effort convincing the LLM not to prematurely prune based on previous human failure.
- riddlemethat 3mo agoThe current foundational models have basic reasoning with glimpses of brilliant reasoning.
- krona 3mo agoLLMs have almost no fluid intelligence or capacity for abstract inductive reasoning, relying on crystallized intelligence for basically everything.
- imdsm 3mo agoI think they have some fluid intelligence, if somewhat brittle
- singularity2001 3mo agoIf anything their capability of abstract inductive reasoning is way beyond the average human given how much better LLMs are at solving math problems, it's the paradox that they can do complicated reasoning before they can do intuitive peep-pe-boo.
- krona 3mo agoabstract inductive reasoning requires dynamic learning in unfamiliar contexts. All the benchmarks which measure this specifically (in particular, task composition) see LLMs fail catastrophically. There is quite a lot of research published on these limitations now.