The way I see it, normal "AI assistants" are a character being acted out from a mad-libs script, and these "reasoning" models are the same but the script is fil

The way I see it, normal "AI assistants" are a character being acted out from a mad-libs script, and these "reasoning" models are the same but the script is film noir, so the Bot is also quietly muttering to itself. I can see how it would be less-likely to wander, but it doesn't seem like a qualitative leap in the fictional thinking going on.