reason about

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Approaches such as retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, can tap relevant organizational data, but can’t reason about the way that data connects, according to Graphon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"We are scaring a bunch of people for no reason about things they did in the past and we're generating more anxiety in an already very anxious population," she said.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

That generally means they are opaque to reason about and require high maintenance, especially when dealing with massive workloads.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

Though the new bot seemed to reason about things that have already happened, it was less adept when asked to form hypotheses about the future.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

“They started scanning mail for this exact reason about two years after you went to Thurmond,” Liam explained.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken