The Thinking Machine That Doesn't Think

A Literature Review by Prayson Wilfred Daniel

Unthinking Machine

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The Thesis

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LLMs predict plausible next or masked tokens without actual understanding. Pattern matching from training distribution.


RL and test-time compute surface pre-existing capabilities rather than creating new reasoning abilities.