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Current AI Lacks Grounded Concepts Like Gravity

Today's language models appear to understand things but lack grounded real-world concepts such as gravity, so they fail at reasoning that depends on such concepts (e.g., tracking where a dropped object ends up); the consensus path to AGI requires adding memory and grounded concepts that humans learn as children.

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Speaker

Eric Schmidt

Evidence Quote

the system doesn't understand how gravity works, right, as an example, it can't follow that reasoning

Source

280 - The Future Of Artificial IntelligenceMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:50:21 AM

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