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by turtlesdown11 594 days ago
did you not read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

"We hypothesize that this decline is due to the fact that current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data."

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They've presented a hypothesis warranting further study.

Here is an article where a model's learned ability to carry out modular addition is recovered. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05217

As you can see, the jury's still out.