Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.

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turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

“Computer” meaning a mechanical/electro-mechanical/electrical machine wasn’t used until around after WWII.

Babbag’s difference/analytical engines weren’t confusing because people called them a computer, they didn’t.

"On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

  • Charles Babbage

If you give any computer, human or machine, random numbers, it will not give you “correct answers”.

It’s possible Babbage lacked the social skills to detect sarcasm. We also have several high profile cases of people just trusting LLMs to file legal briefs and official government ‘studies’ because the LLM “said it was real”.

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