Is there something more than prediction going on? I'd like to understand why there would be studies like this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02477 if it's all just prediction. Are there some algorithms that are called "reasoning", that are somewhere between prediction and full-blown reasoning?

My guess is the framing in that paper was chosen to be provocative. The authors surely understand deep neural networks neither reason nor recite as we understand it in humans.

In any case, the conclusion was decidedly against reasoning.