If reasoning has an operational definition, it is: "Reasoning is whatever a machine cannot yet do". Or "The definition of intelligence is whatever a machine cannot yet do". That definition has held since the beginning of AI research.

Not "fish". Damn phone. Should read "thing"

They are superior to search engines. I'm on board with that. I never use Google Search or Duck Duck Go anymore. I think the frontier models have hugely advanced the practice of information retrieval.

I think we have a breakthrough. It is intelligent if phantomfive says it is intelligent. Phantomfive has declared chocolate bars are NOT intelligent. Case closed

I never have mod points when I need them. Mod parent up. It is unlikely that LLMs can reach that mystical, metaphysical, and nebulous fish called AGI. The article claims only that there are tasks we associate with reasoning or intelligence that do not need language. I can agree with that.

Fantastic post. Thank you. Whether it is the DSM Qor something else, we have to construct it from our observations and experience. There is no single unique way to do that. These things always involve disputes, compromise, and politics. We make this effort even when we know the outcome will be imperfect. We need things like the DSM so that we can communicate with each other. There will never be a final, complete, unchanging DSM. We change, the world changes, and our conclusions change.

"panacea"? I'm a frequent victim of auto-correct. But only because I'm a terrible speaker.

PS. My phone autocorrected "speller" to "speaker."

Good luck getting Oracle to agree to a penalty clause they can't get out of. Sometimes I think Oracle is a law firm that happens to sell some software.

This kind of thing has been going on for at least 30 years with ERP systems. Usually the stories don't make it into the news. What's exceptional is that this one did.

The summary says that 82% of native Persian speakers correctly interpret these social situations correctly. Is that right? Humans screw-up taarof 1 in 5 times? If I had to draw conclusions from that one data point, I would say that either taarof has no well agreed upon protocol, or getting it "right" just isn't that important to the Persians. I'm motivated to RTFA.

God forbid US companies should have to start training and investing in their employees again.

It won't take until 2030.

Everytime name resolution gets screwed up, I start a ChatGPT session "help me un**ck systemd resolved".

  At this point, ChatGPT is like "Point to where resolved hurt you." Smart ass.

But I would spend 3x as long fixing my configuration without it.

"git push" and "git pull" don't trigger any AI features for me. From what I can tell, the real issue is a Visual Studio Code plugin. I don't use VS Code and I'm not seeing an issue.

I was just thinking the same thing. No one knows how to bet on a loser like SoftBank does.

There will be false positive diagnoses from professionals and there will be bad self diagnoses. But that is true of many psychological issues. What is the rate of false diagnosis? What harm comes to the person who is wrongly diagnosed? I think those are important questions.