Pedro Domingos: LLMs doing math is 'a bit of a sick joke'
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-27
AI researcher Pedro Domingos highlights a paradox: humans are not mathematical reasoners, but computers are. Since LLMs are computers trained to imitate humans, it takes massive post-training to restore their mathematical reasoning ability — which he calls "a bit of a sick joke."
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