Subbarao Kambhampati talks 'The Mythos of LLM Thinking Traces' at University of Bordeaux
rao2z · x · 2026-11-08
Subbarao Kambhampati (ASU, former AAAI president) visited LaBRI at University of Bordeaux and gave a talk titled "On the Mythos of LLM 'Thinking Traces'", offering his critical take on what LLM chain-of-thought reasoning actually is. Hosted by Nathanaël Fijalkow, Laurent Simon and Gabriel Bathie; a recording of the talk is available online.
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