Big Tech’s AI Models are Lost in Logic

Some say large language models (LLMs) are a step towards AGI, the rest think of it as merely a cool new tool. Every nook and cranny of the content generation industry—from newsrooms to script writers—is loomed by the fear of being taken over by AI language models. These tools have a credible ability to write everything from a Shakespearean poem to code in several languages. These models can spew well-crafted sentences but lack a fundamental human aspect -- logical reasoning.  Turing awardee Yoshua Bengio had mentioned during an interview with AIM, that the magnitude of data that these systems possess is almost equal to a person reading every day, every waking hour, all their life, and then living 1000 lives. However, they fail at reasoning. “LLMs are encyclopaedic thieves,” he