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How do AI chatbots ‘reason’ like humans? A Yale-led study offers clues

By Alexis Dufresne Published October 10, 2026 at 03:12 UTC

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A very nice writeup from Mike Cummings at Yale News on our work finding symbolic structure inside LLM representations! Read it if you want to learn how the vectors inside LLMs are like pointillist paintings! news.yale.e…
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social: A very nice writeup from Mike Cummings at Yale News on our work finding symbolic structure inside LLM representations! Read it if you want … →

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Original headline: How do AI chatbots ‘reason’ like humans? A Yale-led study offers clues