A very pro-AI account on both Bluesky and X posted about a "disturbing" Stanford paper on LLMs' failures at reasoning

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28. AI expert Gary Marcus's response to that paper:

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-llm-reasoning-continues

BREAKING: LLM “reasoning” continues to be deeply flawed
A new review underscores the breadth of the problem, and shows that close to a trillion dollars hasn’t changed that

Gary Marcus
Feb 10, 2026


As you may know, I have been harping on reasoning as a core challenge for deep learning for well over a decade, at least since a December 2012 New Yorker article:

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By now many, many others have pounded on the same point.

Silicon Valley’s response has always been to dismiss us. We got this covered, the Valley CEOs will tell you. Pay no attention to Gary or any of the other academics from Subbarao Kambhampati to Judea Pearl to Ernest Davis to Ken Forbus to Melanie Mitchell to Yann LeCun to Francesca Rossi, and many others (including more recently Ilya Sutskever), who are also skeptical. Ignore the big AAAI survey that said that LLMs won’t get us to AGI. Surely that Apple study must be biased too. Give us money. Lots of money. Lots and lots of money. Scale Scale Scale. AGI is coming next year!

Well, AGI still hasn’t come (even though they keep issuing the same promises, year after year). LLMs still hallucinate and continue to make boneheaded errors.

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More at the link.