The only kind of reasoning that's somewhat lacking is logical reasoning. And even then it's not awful, just lagging behind equivalent human performance.
So someone really needs to tell where this oft repeated "can't reason" rhetoric is coming from. Because the numbers sure as hell don't support it.
There are many types of reasoning. For some like abstract analogical reasoning, LLMs are top % performers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09196
There's many papers at this point demonstrating pretty strong reasoning. From Casual Reasoning, and explanatory reasoning to algorithmic reasoning.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00050
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02329
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066
The only kind of reasoning that's somewhat lacking is logical reasoning. And even then it's not awful, just lagging behind equivalent human performance.
So someone really needs to tell where this oft repeated "can't reason" rhetoric is coming from. Because the numbers sure as hell don't support it.