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What AI "reasoning" is and why it's not reasoning

What AI "reasoning" is and why it's not reasoning

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What AI "reasoning" is and why it's not reasoning

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- This is a winter tire. It's mid-May and it's 22 degrees outside. So yesterday, I spent over $200 buying a jack and a jack stand so I can swap out the tires. Here's my reasoning. The auto shop charges $30 a wheel. We have to switch 'em twice a year. So if this is $240, that just makes sense. But do I have time to do this? I'm showing you this to highlight just how contextualized our thinking is when we try to figure out a problem and just how much we rely on prior experience, forethought, and seemingly unrelated contextual elements. In the AI debate, and especially in AI marketing, the term reasoning is now being heavily used to describe AI systems. They will not only tell you this is reasoning, but also that this is no different from how humans reason, which is reductive in the extreme and not at all informed by any science about how humans actually reason. What the language models do looks to us like reasoning because the language models emulate the patterns we write down when we…

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