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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.

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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Topic Intelligence Illusion

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