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The Illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the…
Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity. If you’re worried that math and coding benchmarks suffer from contamination, why would you pick well-known puzzles for which we know the solutions exist in the training data? The key insight here is that past a certain complexity threshold, the model decides that there’s too many steps to reason through and starts hunting for clever shortcuts.
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