Researchers Debate: Human Intelligence Fails Current Definitions of 'Reasoning'
AndrewLampinen · x · 2026-08-05
AI researcher Andrew Lampinen took to Twitter to question an article's definition of "reasoning." He pointed out that while the definition is central to the article's argument, humans—our best example of general intelligence—do not actually satisfy this strict criterion. This suggests that current academic or model evaluation standards for defining "reasoning" might be fundamentally flawed.
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