From "LLMs can't reason" to cracking Millennium Problems: the goalposts keep moving on AI consciousness
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-28
ctjlewis traces the shifting AI reasoning debate: saying models "reason" was once controversial, when they failed at rhyming and basic React apps. Now that models crack Millennium Problems, critics say it's "not really reasoning" or that consciousness remains off the table — with almost no philosophical discussion of what the math breakthroughs mean.
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