Humans learn intuitive physics (understanding that unsupported objects fall, that friction affects sliding, that pushing on a side causes rotation) through evolution and embodied experience as infants, not through language, and current AI systems lack any capacity for this kind of physical understanding.

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Speaker

Yan LeCun

Evidence Quote

we have intuitive notion of physics we learn this when we are babies the large language models that we have today... none of them is capable of understanding any of this

Source

AI: Grappling with a New Kind of Intelligence | World Science FestivalWorld Science Festival
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:49:40 PM

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