John Pavlus
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? (opens the original)
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The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. The post Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine (opens the original)
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I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI “reasoning”? Sorry for the air quotes. That punctuational side-eye was more common in 2024, when the specially trained cousins of LLMs now known as “large reasoning models,” or LRMs, were still new. Nowadays it may seem downright churlish, though, given that a “general-purpose reasoning model” from OpenAI solved a famous open mathematical research problem in one shot in May 2026. Still, I’m not sure how else to acknowledge my intellectual whipl
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