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A new study shows AI's step-by-step reasoning collapses outside its training patterns.

"Chain of Thought" rearranges limits, it doesn’t remove them.

AI isn’t better or worse than we are, it's just fundamentally different.

I believe that every student and teacher would agree that solving a problem can be helped with visualization . The steps, the logic, the “show your work” moments can feel like windows into our minds and a path to the solution.

That’s why one of AI ’s most celebrated moves, Chain of Thought (CoT), feels so persuasive. The AI solves a problem in tidy compartments, moving from the first step to the last like a careful student. And in many instances, this CoT processing can improve model performance.

But a recent study suggests those windows may not b

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