When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus

The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversoldA research paper by Apple has taken the tech world by storm, all but eviscerating the popular notion that large language models (LLMs, and their newest variant, LRMs, large reasoning models) are able to reason reliably. Some are shocked by it, some are not. The well-known venture capitalist Josh Wolfe went so far as to post on X that “Apple [had] just GaryMarcus’d LLM reaso