AI article
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
Publisher description: 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…
MIT Technology Review | Oct 2, 2026 | Thore Graepel
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That is why many accounts of AlphaGo’s match against Lee portray move 37 as a flash of pure machine intuition. It was actually AlphaGo’s powers of reasoning that made this creative choice—and these are powers that today’s AI lacks. Of course, open-world reasoning is harder than playing a board game such as Go or chess.
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