How AI ‘reasons’; heart screen; quantum materials

November 8, 2026

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Vector logic

How do AI chatbots ‘reason’ like humans? A Yale-led study offers clues

If you stand too close to a pointillist painting, its individual dots won’t look like much; take a step back, though, and patterns emerge. This familiar phenomenon is similar to the way advanced large language models grasp symbolic structure from vast datasets, says Yale linguist Tom McCoy.