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Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? - Quanta Magazine

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By Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin
| DrWeb's Domain (Podcast)
a-post-about-ai-generative-ai-and-news-about-artificial The Joy of Why Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? By Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin August 20, 2026 Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition.
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Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

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By Steven Strogatz
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Chanelle Nibbelink for Quanta Magazine Introduction When an LLM answers a question, is it reasoning like humans, or just producing text that looks like reasoning? The distinction isn’t just philosophical, this determines what we can trust AI to do, how closely we need to supervise it, and ultimately what its real-world impact will turn out to be.
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Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

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By Steven Strogatz
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3 hours ago In January 2026, Uri Alon, director of the Sagol Institute for Longevity Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and his colleagues made headlines with a new take on the problem, where they asked what happens if you remove deaths from accidents, infections, and other factors—beyond …
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