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Apple recently published a paper that seems to disagree and plainly states it's just pattern matching along with tests to prove it.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...



Anthropic has done much more in depth research actually introspecting the circuits: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...


I'm having a hard time taking apple seriously, when they have don't even have a great llm.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-ceo-ai-i... Anthropic CEO: “We Do Not Understand How Our Own AI Creations Work”. I'm going to lean with Anthropic on this one.


I guess I prefer to look at empirical evidence over feelings and arbitrary statements. AI ceos are notoriously full of crap and make statements with perverse financial incentives.


> I have a hard time taking your claim about rotten eggs seriously when you're not even a chicken.




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