Donald Clark reports that "Critical thinking was one of the famous 21st century skills, that everyone thought AI could never solve. It just has." Seeing AI successfully solve math and reasoning problems is not surprising; once you've seen what it can do with computer code, similar progress would be expected in these other areas. But I'm going to withhold judgement for now because critical thinking is a bit broader than the formal methods involved in these disciplines. Judgements need to be made about meaning and intent. Now I'm not saying AI will never become an effective critical reasoner - in fact, I'm pretty sure it will, which is bad news for all the flim flam artists and propagandists out there. It will take time. But as Clark says, "Limitations being eliminated week by week."
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