Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity. This has been widely understood to demonstrate that reasoning models don’t “actually” reason. I do not believe that AI language models are on the path to superintelligence. But I still don’t like this paper very much. What does it really show? And what does that mean for how we should think about language mode...