LeCun's 2023 claim that ChatGPT cannot understand basic physics (objects moving with tables) was later 'debunked' when ChatGPT was fine-tuned on this specific question after his podcast appeared, demonstrating fine-tuning on individual examples rather than learning understanding.
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Yann LeCunEvidence Quote
“hundreds of people actually asked the question to ChatGPT... that became part of the fine-tuning set... OpenAI integrated that question... any particular question... you can fine-tune it to answer correctly. But it's retrieval.”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:03:11 PM
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