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Daily Archives: 24 February, 2026

A conceptual illustration of the fragility of AI reasoning. A glowing digital brain labeled 'LLM' rests precariously on top of a stack of stone blocks. The blocks are labeled 'Benchmarks', 'MMLU-Pro', 'Math Olympiad', and 'Coding'. The stack is crumbling and unstable. Small feathers labeled 'Rewording', 'Context Change', and 'Phrasing' are gently touching the stack, causing it to crack and wobble, illustrating how tiny changes cause failure. On the right, a person is looking at a tablet that says 'FAILURE' with a confused expression.

Confidently Wrong: The Fragile World of AI

Artificial Intelligence, Foundations of AIBy Mat Newcomb24 February, 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are noted for their fluent and confident answers. They increasingly perform well in a range of tests and benchmarks. For example, LLMs score highly on benchmarks like MMLU-Pro, which was specifically designed to challenge LLMs in a range of around 12,000 general knowledge tests. LLMs these days also score well on…

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