Small neural programs struggle with even trivially simple tasks

Researcher Yuntiandeng shared months of experiments showing that small neural programs fail to reliably solve even trivially simple tasks, including the strawberry problem and substring search, with reproducible examples.

2026-09-22 ~ 2026-09-22 · 2 related posts

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