Current chat bots like GPT-4 do not yet perform reasoning with long chains of explicit internal calculation comparable to Monte Carlo tree search in AlphaZero, but they can guess good moves and evaluate positions trained from human experts, which is why improvements in their reasoning ability are forthcoming

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Geoffrey Hinton

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we haven't got them doing internal reasoning but that will come and once they start doing internal reasoning to check for the consistency between the different things they believe then they'll get much smarter

Source

Possible End of Humanity from AI? Geoffrey Hinton at MIT Technology Review's EmTech DigitalJoseph Raczynski
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:48:51 PM

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