News

Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning

The Register · Thomas Claburn · last updated

If you are betting on AGI – artificial general intelligence, the point at which AI models rival human cognition – showing up next year, you may want to adjust your timeline.

Apple AI researchers have found that the “thinking” ability of so-called “large reasoning models” collapses when things get complicated. The authors’ findings, described in a paper titled, “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity,” indicate that the intellectual potential of such models is so far quite limited.

Related Knowledge Center: Artificial intelligence

State of Play

On top of a failing business model, newsrooms must navigate the powerful — and not fully reliable — new capabilities of artificial intelligence and the deployment of large language models.

State of the business model | Copyright and intellectual property


More informationabout Artificial intelligence