Comment by jedbrooke

my thinking (hope?) is that the reasoning models will be more like how a calculator doesn’t have to “remember” all the possible combinations of addition, multiplication, etc for all the numbers, but can actually compute the results.

As reasoning improves the models could start with a basic set of principles and build from there. Of course for facts grounded in reality RAG would still likely be the best, but maybe with enough “reasoning” a model could simulate an approximation of the universe well enough to get to an answer.