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What Is Inference? The Bridge Between Clues and Conclusions

We all have the habit of trying to guess the killer in a movie before the big reveal. That’s us making inferences. It’s what happens when your brain connects the dots without being told everything ...
Science Daily

To Understand The Big Picture, Give It Time - And Sleep

Memorizing a series of facts is one thing, understanding the big picture is quite another. Now a new study demonstrates that relational memory -- the ability to make logical "big picture" inferences ...
Ars Technica

Researchers find LLMs are bad at logical inference, good at “fluent nonsense”

Having read the paper, I am not sure how applicable these results are. The model they used was a version of a tiny, 6-year old LLM, GPT 2, which has ONLY 774 million parameters. It appears that CoT ...
Business Line

AI that can think: The rise of reasoning models that can mimic human logic

As AI models evolve beyond mere fact recall, a new generation of reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, and DeepSeek-R1, is redefining how machines think. Unlike traditional knowledge ...