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Apple Study Reveals Critical Flaws in AI’s Logical Reasoning Abilities

Apple’s Brainy Bunch Says AI Has the Logic of a Carrot!

Folks, it seems our glorious robot overlords may not be as smart as we thought. A new study from Apple’s research team is basically saying that today’s fancy AI, the kind that’s supposed to write your term papers and cure cancer, can’t even figure out how many kiwis you’ve picked if you happen to mention that some are slightly bigger than others.

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The study, which you can find on a website called “arXiv”, tested a bunch of big-name language models, including ones from OpenAI and Meta. They found that these models are basically just parrots mimicking patterns – they don’t actually understand what they’re doing. Apple claims that these models are so easily fooled that “simply changing names can alter results.” Imagine a doctor diagnosing you based on your name and not your symptoms!

Apple’s researchers are suggesting that we need to teach AI some good old-fashioned logic alongside its fancy algorithms, something they call “neurosymbolic AI”. It sounds complicated, but basically, they want to give the robots a brain upgrade so they can tell the difference between a kiwi and a kumquat, even if you try to trick them with a bunch of irrelevant details.

So, what does this mean for the future of AI? Well, it might mean that our robot butlers won’t be taking over the world anytime soon. But it also means that we need to be careful about relying on AI for important decisions, because it might just be guessing based on patterns, not actually thinking things through. And if even Apple is admitting this, you know it’s got to be bad.

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Tayler Morgan Apple
Content Creator | Former Apple Sales Specialist | @hitomidocameraroll

From the sales floor to the critic's corner, I'm a former Apple Sales Specialist who's not afraid to tell it like it is. Get my honest takes on the iPhone, Mac, and everything Apple. | Los Angeles, California.

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