GoKawiilFormer DeepMind scientist Thore Graepel says LLMs cannot truly reason
Thore Graepel, who helped build AlphaGo, has left Google DeepMind and published an opinion piece arguing that large language models lack genuine reasoning ability. He contrasts this with AlphaGo's 2016 victory over Lee Sedol, which he credits to the system's capacity for creative, reasoned decision-making. Separately, a MIT Technology Review writer reports joining a six-month competition involving roughly 500 participants aiming to reduce their biological age, tracked via a leaderboard.