LLM Reasoning Limitations Exposed: Apple’s Study Shatters AI Thinking Myths

The Illusion of Thinking: Apple’s Research Reveals the True Boundaries of LLM Reasoning Abilities 1. Introduction: When “Thinking” AI Became the Industry Fad In recent years, the AI field has witnessed a surge in “reasoning model fever.” Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) such as OpenAI’s o-series, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, and Google’s Gemini Thinking have emerged, claiming to “think deeply” through mechanisms like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and self-reflection before providing answers. These models have shown remarkable performance on reasoning benchmarks like mathematics and coding tasks, leading some scholars to believe that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might be achievable within the next …