[GoLUG] LLMs can't reason

[kc-golug at chadwicks.me.uk]

18 Jun 2025 22:26:18 Steve Litt <slitt at 444domains.com>:

> The real problem is that, with programs designing programs
> designing programs, and more and more AI machines and robots are
> closely networked together,

Except they aren't designing programs. They are just spitting out error probe chunks of code and the bigger the code base gets the worse it gets. The data even shows that humans using LLMs as tools which is the only way they can work results in significantly worse code quality. Any attempts of true AI (completely separate field to LLMs and "AI" of today) where programs are self modifying fail spectacularly. And as I have said innovation and reasoning from a position of understanding is not computable. All LLMs do is probabilistically exhibit what already exists whilst introducing errors and other quality issues.