[airstrike]

> Ask it "what is the capital of the state containing Dallas" and you can observe, in order:

> the Dallas feature goes active,

> which causes the Texas feature to light up,

> which then causes Austin to light up.

> It seems fairly clear that this is tracing semantic relationships between high-level concepts — and in doing so, performing a kind of pseudo-symbolic inference, similar to what some philosophers would describe as "higher reasoning."

Uhhh no reasoning is required for Austin to follow Texas after Dallas, let alone "higher reasoning".

This is really grasping as straws

[dawnerd]

Even better, I just tried in chatgpt and it just googled it and told me. That’s not reasoning, that’s offloading a task and taking five times as long and way more energy than if I just typed it into Google myself.

[bryanlarsen]

Only some animals can perform a reasoning chain that long. Thus higher reasoning.