What Makes Thinking Sensible
What does it actually mean to think and reason? I came across this definition of a ‘Reasoning AI model’ recently while reading the book “How to AI” by Christopher Mims. According to the book, a reasoning model is a type of AI/large language model that talks to itself in order to “reason” through a problem. While a technical definition of how an AI model ’thinks’ is more complicated, it still made me think - Do we also solve our problems by talking to ourselves? What’s the general process of reasoning for humans? Is it just talking to ourselves? Is it asking “Why?” to get to the root of a problem and then finding a solution? ...