Apple study: LLMs not consistently Bayesian in belief updates

Apple ML Research paper introduces an information processing gap measure to quantify how LLMs update probabilistic beliefs from evidence. Non-Bayesian heuristic updates often outperform exact Bayesian updates on downstream tasks, indicating misspecified world models.
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