LLM's Secret Sauce: Millennia of Logical Inference Written in Human Language
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-27
- Ethan Mollick observes how strange it is that LLMs turned out to solve a wide range of problems that don't seem like language problems.
- Afinetheorem's explanation: logical inference has been written in human language for millennia, and LLMs draw on that legacy. In retrospect it makes sense, but ex ante it wasn't obvious to anyone — including the authors of the Transformer paper.
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