>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?" But today's models do ask and an

>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?" But today's models do ask and answer those questions. The author may be confused by the fact that the UI of most systems is currently set up to be driven by human prompts, but this is nothing to do with the nature of the AI model; it's more of how the system is integrated into its environment. We can easily choose to give these systems their own initiative, with much (even) simpler programming than was required to make the AI models in the first place. We can get into a semantics argument about whether it's the AI model that has the initiative, or the runloop driving it, but that's missing the point that what matters is the total effect of the entire system, not whether you can point to some subcomponent of it and say that component by itself doesn't meet the definition of whatever term (consciousness, reason, etc.) you are gatekeeping.