> ...like a Joycean inner monologue or the flow of sense memories in a Proustian daydream. Or we might mean reasoning: working through a problem step by step.

Moving goalposts will be mostly associated with AI I think: God -> ASI -> AGI -> inner monologue -> working through a problem step by step.

Why fixating on a single human trait like thinking? The only reason trillions are "invested" into this technology is building a replacement for knowledge workers at scale. We can extend this line of thought and make another article "AI has knowledge", at least in a distilled sense, it knows something, sometimes. Cargo cult...

It's very easy to define what's actually required - a system that can show up in a knowledge worker's environment, join the video call, greet the team and tell about itself, what it learned, and start learning in a vague environment, pull those invisible lines of knowledge that lie between its colleagues, getting better, collaborating, and finally replacing all of them.