Large Language Models, or LLMs, a type of artificial intelligence, or AI, technology capable of understanding and translating vast amounts of text data, don’t quite live up to claims of their comprehensive and superior reasoning power. Pushback against such a declaration has come from ASU researchers, including Chengshuai Zhao, a graduate research associate in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools. Zhao and his colleagues have published a research paper making the case that while AI is a sophisticated and useful form of structured pattern matching, it is not a mechanism for genuine logical inference — or, in other words, vastly superior reasoning powers.