AI reasoning

5 stories tagged AI reasoning.

How AI Self-Checking Works and Why It Can Still Fail

A 2021 paper frames AI metacognition. Today's test-time compute sharpens its core question: when does spending more computation reliably improve an answer?

How AI Is Actually Tested for Human-Level Intelligence

Bob Reynolds3 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds3 months ago

How AI Is Actually Tested for Human-Level Intelligence

ARC AGI 3 tasks AI with figuring out video games from scratch — and current models can barely start them. Here's what that reveals about the gap between AI and human reasoning.

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Does AI Understand Things, or Just Predict Words?

Yuki Okonkwo4 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo4 months ago

Does AI Understand Things, or Just Predict Words?

The "AI just predicts tokens" argument is technically true—but is it the whole story? A murder mystery with fake physics might hold the answer.

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AI Benchmarks Are Breaking. Here's Why That Matters.

Zara Chen6 months ago

AI. Zara Chen6 months ago

AI Benchmarks Are Breaking. Here's Why That Matters.

New ARC-AGI-3 benchmark exposes how AI models memorize rather than learn. Humans score 100%, frontier AI models score less than 1%. The gap reveals everything.

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Mercury 2 Reimagines How AI Models Think and Generate Text

Zara Chen7 months ago

AI. Zara Chen7 months ago

Mercury 2 Reimagines How AI Models Think and Generate Text

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 ditches the transformer architecture for diffusion, generating entire responses at once then refining them. Here's what that means.