IS CHAIN-OF-THOUGHT AI REASONING A MIRAGE?

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Whether chain-of-thought reasoning is real or not is primarily a philosophical question. It depends on having a clear definition of what 'real' reasoning is, and there is no single consensus definition of ideal reasoning. Good model reasoning papers both directly assess the quality of human reasoning skills, or ideally, provide a tight philosophical definition of what 'real' reasoning is, and use tasks that actually require reasoning rather than simply computation. They use tasks that have many paths to success and don't draw sweeping conclusions about 'real' reasoning.