Don’t be fooled - LLMs don’t reason
A Go playing program called AlphaGo won a match against a human player by making a seemingly absurd move, which was actually part of its strategy. The game was played in Seoul in 2016 and AlphaGo won 4-1 overall. This unexpected move showed that the program's decision-making process was not simply based on probability calculations.
Why it's good news: It highlights the complex and creative ways artificial intelligence can solve problems, challenging preconceptions about how intelligent machines think.
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