Apple’s ‘AI Can’t Reason’ Claim Seen By 13M+, What You Need to Know

AI Explained Official Podcast

What to make of those headlines that AI can’t reason, seen by tens of millions? I cover the paper in layman’s terms, what it means and doesn’t mean, and what’s next.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:57 - Viral Post + Headlines
01:42 - Apple Paper Analysis
08:34 - But they do Hallucinate
10:43 - Not Supercomputers
11:18 - o3 Pro and Recommendations
13.7M Tweet: https://x.com/RubenHssd/status/1931389580105925115
Apple Paper: https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf
Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-study-collapse
Lisan al Gaib post: https://x.com/scaling01/status/1931854370716426246
Multiplication: https://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1836114401213989366
The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zx9ikRj0Enc3SB4wA9HlYIlpmO_8QiUO/view
Marcus: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/10/billion-dollar-ai-puzzle-break-down
Prof Rao: https://x.com/rao2z/status/1927707640223719631
AI Job Headlines: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/technology/ai-mechanize-jobs.html
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
Sky News Story: https://news.sky.com/story/can-we-trust-chatgpt-despite-it-hallucinating-answers-13380975
Veo 3 Ad: https://x.com/Kalshi/status/1932891608388681791
Altman Essay: https://blog.samaltman.com/
o3 Original benchmarks: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5b8b6c44-acd6-43b3-b5c6-1a1d5c6c25e4_2486x1388.png
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