18. Shortcut reasoning
Their reasoning is nothing more than an intertwined nest of shortcut upon shortcut.
![She stares out into the storm. The triangle shapes could be forming a lightning. Or, it might just be noise.](https://assets.steadyhq.com/production/post/019c35e6-4bab-448a-91ca-ac57f4fecfc3/uploads/images/x2p7z7yclk/victorian-storm.jpg?auto=compress&w=800&fit=max&dpr=2&fm=webp)
Summary
These systems are very prone to shortcuts. Instead of building a coherent model for reasoning, they tend to take shortcuts based on correlations in the training data.
This is a problem because shortcuts are fragile, which makes for reasoning systems that only work under very specific circumstances.
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Date
June 25, 2024
Topic
Intelligence Illusion
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