Tero Keski-Valkama<p>It is all about reasoning now. <a href="https://rukii.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> chatbots are already superhuman in their vast knowledge, and no human can ever compete with their billions of parameters in capacity.</p><p>Indeed, we aren't benchmarking their knowledge against single human level, but against the totality of humankind.</p><p>But to get the most value out of this knowledge, these <a href="https://rukii.net/tags/AIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIs</span></a> need to be able to execute cognitive skills as instructed on this knowledge. Reasoning is one of such skills, "system 2" in Kahneman's categorization. But it's not just about building an architecture which is in principle capable of system 2 like thinking.</p><p>Reasoning is not a single skill, it is an open bag of skills which require mental exploration and which allow producing more knowledge out of already crystallized knowledge.</p><p>For example, there are skills needed for solving mathematical equations, multiplication, division and so on. These are different mental skills than skills needed for constructing and evaluating mathematical proofs. Furthermore, reasoning skills related to engineering tasks, scientific work, medical evaluations, and so on, are all slightly different.</p><p>Although there are some ridiculously trasferrable reasoning skills which apply across many domains, many domains also have their own reasoning skills which differ from the same in other domains.</p><p>We can teach these skills to the AIs similarly as we taught knowledge to them; first by presenting them to them in volumes, and then letting them practice them and improve while doing it.</p><p>The same as with humans, but in the end we get AIs which rival the whole of humanity in volumes of available knowledge, but also in cognitive skills, and are able to use their universalist expertise across all domains.</p><p>This alone, even without surpassing humanity's intelligence, will alone mean a golden age never seen before. Imagine the repercussions.</p>