Recently, with the application progress of AIGC tools based on large language models (LLMs), led by ChatGPT, many AI experts and more non-professionals are trumpeting the "reasoning ability" of the LLMs. The present author considers that the so-called "reasoning ability" of LLMs are just illusions of those people who with vague concepts. In fact, the LLMs can never have the true reasoning ability. This paper intents to explain that, because the essential limitations of their working principle, the LLMs can never have the ability of true correct reasoning.

Thanks to Valerio De Stefano, Reuben Binns, Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Barend van Leeuwen, Aislinn Kelly-Lyth, Lilian Edwards, Natali Helberger, Christopher Marsden, Sarah Chander, Corinne Cath-Speth for comments and/or discussion; substantive and editorial input by Ulrich Gasper; and the conveners and participants of several workshops including one convened by Margot Kaminski, one by Burkhard Schäfer, one part of the 2nd ELLIS Workshop in Human-Centric Machine Learning; one between Lund University and the Labour Law Community; and one between Oxford, KU Leuven and UCL. A CC-BY 4.0 license applies to this article after 3 calendar months from publication have elapsed.

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