Perspective.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ais-not-reasoning-at-all-how-this-team-debunked-the-industry-hype/

AI's not 'reasoning' at all - how this team debunked the industry hype

• We don't entirely know how AI works, so we ascribe magical powers to it.

• Claims that Gen AI can reason are a "brittle mirage."

• We should always be specific about what AI is doing and avoid hyperbole.

… In a paper published last month on the arXiv pre-print server and not yet reviewed by peers, the authors -- Chengshuai Zhao and colleagues at Arizona State University -- took apart the reasoning claims through a simple experiment. What they concluded is that "chain-of-thought reasoning is a brittle mirage," and it is "not a mechanism for genuine logical inference but rather a sophisticated form of structured pattern matching."