A new study indicates that AI's Chain of Thought (CoT) enhances problem-solving by organizing steps methodically. However, researchers demonstrate that this effectiveness is limited. By training a custom AI model on exclusively synthetic problems, the study reveals that AI's abilities collapse beyond its trained patterns. Despite CoT's appearance of clear logical reasoning, it fails under unfamiliar tasks, lacking flexibility and adaptability. Therefore, while AI performs differently, it does not surpass human reasoning capabilities in a fundamental sense, revealing a distinct operational confinement.
A new study shows AI's step-by-step reasoning collapses outside its training patterns.
"Chain of Thought" rearranges limits, it doesn't remove them.
AI isn't better or worse than we are, it's just fundamentally different.
The study looked at three kinds of "nudges" to see how the model reacted.
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