> I'd say if it mimics something well enough then eventually it's just doing the thing Right up to the point where it actually needs to reason, and the mimickr

> I'd say if it mimics something well enough then eventually it's just doing the thing Right up to the point where it actually needs to reason, and the mimickry doesn't suffice. My above example about the Football and the Coffemug is an easy one, the objects are well represented in its training data. What if I need a reason why the Service Ping spikes every 60 seconds, here is the code, please LLM look it up. I am sure I will get a great and well written answer. I am also sure it won't be the correct one, which is that some dumb script I wrote, which has nothing to do with the code shown, blocks the server for about 700ms every minute. Figuring out that something cannot be explained with the data represented, and thus may come from a source unseen, is one example of actual reasoning. And this "giving up on the data shown" is something I have yet to see any AI do.