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An Apple study finds AI reasoning collapses as task complexity increases.

LLMs often simulate logic without truly understanding it.

Fluency isn't thought, and while AI may sound smart, it can fail where it matters most.

There’s a curious irony in the world of artificial intelligence that has really gotten me thinking. In fact, I've often discussed the nature of "thought" in the context of large language models. From " cognitive theater " to " technological architecture ," I've studied these thinking machines and explored the illusion of fluency masquerading as thought. Now, Apple’s new research on reasoning models takes a close look at this very issue.

In their new report, The Illusion of Thinking , Apple researchers opened the hood on a class of large language mo

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