Domingos: Gemini itself agrees CoT and RL are a wasteful detour for reasoning
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-04
Pedro Domingos shared a screenshot of Gemini Argon agreeing with his claim that chain-of-thought and RL for internal monologue would be "a massive, inefficient detour" if a system were designed from the ground up for logical reasoning. Domingos has long argued the industry's CoT+RL approach to reasoning is fundamentally misguided — and now points to the model itself conceding the point.
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