Mike Caulfield blogs about reason and reasoning and surprisingly doesn’t care how AI got there, and who is still doing the work. Google and Perplexity have launched Deep Research engines, AI help for regular research. He talks about SOK (State of Knowledge) and the next step up SSOK (Statements about SOK), which often include references to the knowledge (links or quotes from other work).
“A question sometimes comes up at this point — well, look at all the work you had to do when you verified this. Isn’t it actually you who is doing the reasoning?
This question doesn’t really understand cognition well. In a sense, it’s always me doing the reasoning.”
Is it really research if the cognitive process is being somewhat replaces with AI? I think it is. It just becomes quicker, and more a filter than an engine itself. Worth thinking about.
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