Cognition is All You Need -- The Next Layer of AI Above Large Language Models

Understand

Recent studies of the applications of conversational AI tools, such as chatbots powered by large language models, to complex real-world knowledge work have shown limitations related to reasoning and multi-step problem solving.

• Specifically, while existing chatbots simulate shallow reasoning and understanding they are prone to errors as problem complexity increases.
• The failure of these systems to address complex knowledge work is due to the fact that they do not perform any actual cognition.
• In this position paper, we present Cognitive AI, a higher-level framework for implementing programmatically defined neuro-symbolic cognition above and outside of large language models.