Nothing against Gary Marcus, but I refuse to use Substack, a platform profiting off of the Nazi Bar.
Hey, Apple released an academic paper on why LLMs collapse like a flan in a cupboard when posed with a real task other than passing an exam or sending a mundane email. (No prompt you write will ever close that gap, it just doesn't work.)
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
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