Ted Chiang argues that current AI is not conscious, highlighting that its limitations are surprisingly mundane. A vision-language model (VLM) demonstrated the ability to solve a geometry problem when presented as text but failed the same problem when given as an image. This suggests that some "reasoning failures" in AI might actually stem from issues with cross-modal retrieval rather than a lack of underlying knowledge. AI
IMPACT Suggests that some AI reasoning failures may be due to cross-modal retrieval issues, rather than fundamental limitations.
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