Researchers at tech giant Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models. In the paper, a team of machine learning experts discussed the "illusion of thinking," arguing that the AI industry is grossly overstating the ability of popular AI models, including OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Google's Gemini, to reason. It's a particularly noteworthy finding, considering Apple has long been accused of falling far behind the competition in the AI space, seemingly choosing a far more careful and notably slower path to integrating the tech […]