No, it's the entire architecture of the model. There's no real reasoning. It seems that reasoning is just a feedback loop on top of existing autocompletion.
It's really disingenuous for the industry to call warming tokens for output, "reasoning," as if some autocomplete before more autocomplete is all we needed to solve the issue of consciousness.
Edit: Letter frequency apparently has just become another scripted output, like doing arithmetic. LLMs don't have the ability to do this sort of work inherently, so they're trained to offload the task.
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It's really disingenuous for the industry to call warming tokens for output, "reasoning," as if some autocomplete before more autocomplete is all we needed to solve the issue of consciousness.
Edit: Letter frequency apparently has just become another scripted output, like doing arithmetic. LLMs don't have the ability to do this sort of work inherently, so they're trained to offload the task.
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