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A claim asserted without evidence as usual. Given that accurately predicting the next token in text requires reasoning we should assume that reasoning would be an emergent property of LLMs so long as the architecture is capable of it.

Do you have a reason to believe that an LLM like GPT would be unable to learn how to reason?

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The original assertion is literally how LLMs work. Saying that there's reasoning involved is the extraordinary claim here, and the one requiring evidence, not the other way around. Otherwise you're just asking them to prove a negative, which cannot be done.

I don't see how, given current implementation, an LLM can come up with an original thought or invent something novel. Statistics != reasoning.

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