It is not semantics. For decades, logic and CS researchers have known what reasoning is.
LLM folks suddenly can’t claim an approximation of that is what constitutes full scale reasoning just because they can achieve only an approximation.
Imagine a calculator program that computes billions of two number multiplications accurately by looking up prior examples but fails on simple multiplications often as it doesn’t have it in its training dataset.
We won’t say the program actually multiplies numbers.
LLM folks suddenly can’t claim an approximation of that is what constitutes full scale reasoning just because they can achieve only an approximation.
Imagine a calculator program that computes billions of two number multiplications accurately by looking up prior examples but fails on simple multiplications often as it doesn’t have it in its training dataset.
We won’t say the program actually multiplies numbers.