>> You may be mistaking reasoning ability with sheer volume of more patterns to match on. You can only reason when you have awareness within which to reason, wh

>> You may be mistaking reasoning ability with sheer volume of more patterns to match on. You can only reason when you have awareness within which to reason, which these systems do not. What exactly is "reasoning"? Seem, like the ability to consider options and choose one that fits the situation best. One might even call it "prediction". I generally argue that these big brains of ours (and science too) are intended to predict the future of various hypotheticals in order to choose the path forward with the best outcome. Another frightening thing about chatGPT is that it has no "motivation". A lot of people think that AI will need some kind of motivation in order to be useful. How much of what we do as humans is actually done on autopilot? And then there's the NPC meme. I'm not sure these concepts (reason, thought, motivation) are so well defined that we will be certain when AI attains them or not.