The railroad industry was one of the first to disrupt how the world worked with technology, but lately, innovation in freight railroading has amounted to little more than longer and longer trains.
A language model can write “let me double-check that” and still get the multiplication wrong. It can even write “wait, let me reconsider,” and land on a different wrong answer. Neither sentence is evidence of thinking. If the goal is solving the problem, only the number at the end counts.
