# Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

**Published:** October 2, 2026
**Author:** Thore Graepel
**Source:** MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
**Language:** en-US
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On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…

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**Tags:** #Google DeepMind #OpenAI

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