AlphaGo's move 37 shows why LLMs do not truly reason, an AlphaGo team member argues

Thore Graepel, a core member of the AlphaGo team, argues that current large language models do not truly reason, despite chain-of-thought gains in math and coding.

He says they lack an explicit, inspectable epistemic state, keep knowledge and reasoning intertwined in their weights, and often produce post-hoc explanations.

He proposes systems that maintain an auditable epistemic state and evaluate each step by how much it resolves uncertainty.