There is significant controversy in the field of artificial intelligence, or AI, technology about whether large language models like the popular ChatGPT — which has demonstrated its capabilities in such things as writing essays and Shakespearean poetry — are also capable of actual reasoning and planning. The article focuses on recent work by Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor on the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, and three of his colleagues whose research paper shows AI’s reasoning limitations, but notes AI can still function as an effective idea generator as part of a larger architecture that includes external verifiers.