> Reasoning is reasoning. "Look as if it is reasoning" is an imaginary distinction you've made up.

No - just because something has the surface appearance of reasoning doesn't mean that the generative process was reasoning, anymore than a cargo cult wooden aircraft reflects any understanding of aerodynamics and would be able to fly.

We've already touched on it, but the "farmer crossing river" problems is a great example. When the LLM sometimes degenerates into "cross bank A to B with chicken, cross band B to A with chicken, cross bank A to B with chicken.. that is the fewest trips possible", this is an example of "looks as if it is reasoning" aka cargo-cult surface-level copying of what a solution looks like. Real reasoning would never repeat a crossing without loading/unloading something since that conflicts with the goal of fewest trips possible.

I never said anything about the surface appearance of reasoning. Either the model demonstrates some understanding or reasoning in the text it generates as it is perfectly capable of or it reasons faultily or lacks understanding in that area. This does not mean LLMs don't reason anymore than it means you don't reason.

The idea that LLMs "fake reason" and Humans "really reason" is an imaginary distinction. If you cannot create any test that can distinguish the two then you are literally making things up.

Dude, I just gave you an example, and you straight-up ignore it and say "show me a test"?!

An averagely smart human does not have these failure modes where they answer a question with something that looks like an answer "cross A to B, then B to A. done. there you go!" but has zero logic to it.

Do you follow news in this field at all? Are you aware that poor reasoning is basically the #1 shortcoming that all the labs are working on?!!

Feel free to have the last word as this is just getting repetitive.

You are supposed to show me an example no human will fail. I didn't ignore anything. I'm just baffled that you genuinely believe this:

>An averagely smart human does not have these failure modes where they answer a question with something that looks like an answer "cross A to B, then B to A. done. there you go!" but has zero logic to it.

Humans are poor at logic in general. We make decisions, give rationales with logical contradictions and nonsense all the time. I just genuinely can't believe you think we don't. It happens so often we have names for these cognitive shortcomings. Get any teacher you know and ask them this. No need to take my word for it. And i don't care about getting the last word.