Apple’s New Paper - The Illusion of Thinking” — Apple’s Devastating Critique of AGI #TechNews

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Apple has published a paper with a devastating title, the illusion of thinking. It argues that I models, no matter how brilliant they may seem, do not understand what they are doing. They do not solve problems. They merely generate text word by word trying to sound Korean. Apple tested the most advanced reasoning models in the world on controlled puzzle environments. They tore open the internal thinking traces.

[00:00:28]What they found shatters the narrative that we are getting closer to ag shatters the narative.

[00:00:38]Current models don't scale with complexity. They have a hard mathematical cliff and they do not degrade gracefully. They collapse. But here is the most unsettling part.

[00:00:57]When a problem gets too complex, the eye doesn't use its remaining compute to try harder.

[00:01:04]It just gives up.

[00:01:09]Its reasoning effort actually declines.

[00:01:13]It stops thinking and starts guessing.

[00:01:16]Then Apple ran the experiment that closes the casket on the reasoning debate. They gave the eye the exact stepbystep algorithm to solve the puzzle, the cheat codes.

[00:01:31]All the eye had to do was follow the instructions.

[00:01:36]It couldn't do it.

[00:01:38]It couldn't do it.

[00:01:41]Performance didn't improve at all.

[00:01:45]When the complexity gets high enough because they cannot actually execute a logical sequence, they are not reasoning. They are just pattern matching. When you give them a simple problem, they overthink.

[00:02:00]When you give them a hard problem, they collapse.

[00:02:16]The illusion of thinking.

[00:02:20]Apple 2025.