Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

The story of humanity is one of extraordinary cooperation but also terrible conflict. We come together to build cities, civilizations and cultures, but we also destroy these through violence against ...

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Overview: Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math.High scores on known Datasets do not ...

There’s a curious contradiction at the heart of today’s most capable AI models that purport to “reason”: They can solve routine math problems with accuracy, yet when faced with formulating deeper ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new ...