AlphaGo builder's new London lab bets LLMs can't be trusted to reason
Thore Graepel, who helped build DeepMind's AlphaGo, is applying game-winning search techniques to general reasoning. His warning: LLMs can't be trusted to reason.

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Thore Graepel, who helped build DeepMind's AlphaGo, is applying game-winning search techniques to general reasoning. His warning: LLMs can't be trusted to reason.
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