Skip to content Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training. How much does this puzzle resemble one the robot has seen before? Credit: Getty Images In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a "chain of thought" process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the same time, recent research has cast doubt on whether those models have even a basic understanding of general ...