[EncomLab]

The entire paper is riddled with anthropomorphic terms - it's part of AI culture unfortunately. When they start talking about "planning", "choosing", "reasoning" it biases the perception of their analysis. One could certainly talk about a night light equipped with a photoresistor as "planning to turn on the light when it is dark", "choosing to turn on the light because it is dark, and "reasoning that since it is dark, it turned on the light"- but is that accurate?

[galaxyLogic]

I agree. "Planning" means we come up with alternative sets of steps or tasks which we then order into sequences or acyclic directed graphs and then pick the plan we think is the best. We can also create "Plan B" and "Plan C" for the cases that the main plan fails to execute successfully.

But as far as we know does AI internally assemeble subtasks into graphs and then evaluate them and pick the best one?

Is there any evidence in the memory traces of the executing AI that there are tasks and sub-tasks and ordering and evaluating of them, then taking a decision to choose and EXECUTE the best plan?

Where is the evidence that AI-programs do "planning"?

[profchemai]

I love this analogy.