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Thore Graepel (co-creator of AlphaGo) just came out of stealth with Metis Reasoning. Here he is telling us how it felt to witness Move 37 in person, and why LLMs may never be truly creative: "I was sitting in the audience. The commentators were up front discussing the moves, and then Michael Redmond the nine-Dan professional who commented on this...he said, 'Oh no, that must be a mistake.'" "...Panic in my heart, in all of our hearts, I think. But then he put it back and, you know, kind of…
Ten years ago, AlphaGo’s Move 37 shocked the world. It wasn’t intuition alone that produced it. AlphaGo could search possible futures, test its instincts and reason about what would happen next. In a new piece for @techreview, I argue that today’s most advanced AI systems are still missing something fundamental. LLMs are remarkably capable, but generating longer chains of thought is not the same as genuine reasoning. They typically have no explicit, inspectable record of what they know, what remains uncertain, what evidence supports a conclusion or whether genuine progress has been made. This is why I recently left @GoogleDeepMind. I believe we need a fresh approach to machine reasoning, drawing on some of the architectural lessons from AlphaGo. If AI is going to produce trustworthy and genuinely novel insights in science, medicine and beyond, we need systems whose conclusions arise from an auditable process of evidence, inference and belief revision.