Comment by danbruc
7 days ago
To reaching AI that can reason. And sure, as I wrote, large language models might become a relevant component for processing natural language inputs and outputs, but I do not see a path towards large language models becoming able to reason without some fundamentally new ideas. At the moment we try to paper over this deficit by giving large language model access to all kind of external tools like search engines, compilers, theorem provers, and so on.
When LLMs attempt to some novel problems (I'm thinking of pure mathematics here) they can try possible approaches and examine by themselves which approaches are working and not and then come to conclusions. That is enough for me to conclude they are reasoning.