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 LeCunEvidence 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 Festival— World Science FestivalCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:49:40 PM
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