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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 15, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
Position Paper Argues AI Reasoning Evaluations Lack a Working Definition of Reasoning
The authors propose operational definitions that treat valid reasoning as a learnable, rule-based process, along with a reporting checklist, arguing that current benchmarks cannot show they actually measure reasoning rather than something else.
A position paper on arXiv, Reasoning is a Learnable Rule-Based Process, targets a problem that underlies every reasoning benchmark result published this year. The authors argue that the AI and generative AI communities use the word reasonin…
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