[wutbrodo]

Right, inference is essential to any attempt to build an intelligence and DeepMind in particular doesn't do inference (AFAIK). I just wanted to clarify what the parent commenter was saying; I work in the field, and in conversations around AI, I very often hear "reasoning" used as an ill-defined, unattainable (for machines) _je ne sais quoi_ that's used to prognosticate about the potential for AI in general. Being specific about what one means by "reasoning" (in this context, inference) is useful for removing those kinds of useless, unmoored-from-logic[1] perspectives from a conversation.

[1] To be clear, I'm not dismissing a viewpoint that I think is wrong as "unmoored from logic", I'm specifically talking about the very common situation where people confidently assert this with no attempt (and no ability) to back it up in any way other than confidence that intelligence is simply natural and non-biological entities can never get arbitrarily close.