Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

Original publisher: MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)

Canonical URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1145639/dont-be-fooled-llms-dont-reason/

Summary excerpt

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…