How are we feeling about the usage of the word research to indicate feature sets in LLMs? Is it truly representative of research? How does it compare to the colloquial “do your research” refrain used often during US election years?

Well I will just need to start saying “critical thinking”? Or some other term?

I have a liberal arts background. So I use the term research to mean gathering evidence, evaluating its trustworthiness and biases, and avoiding related thinking errors related to evaluating evidence (https://thedecisionlab.com/biases).

LLMs can fall prey to these problems as well. Usually it’s not just “reasoning” that gives you trouble. It’s the reasoning about evidence. I see this with Claude Code a lot. It can sometimes create some weird code, hallucinating functionality that doesn’t exist, all because it found a random forum post.

I realize though that the term is pretty overloaded :)