Large language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 are trained on 'all the digital content in the world' and can discuss any topic—quantum mechanics, history, recipes—with impressive fluency, but this does not mean they are doing reasoning; they excel at tasks with abundant training data where low-stakes errors are tolerable, not at real-world embodied tasks like robotics.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“we've got large language models that you can have a chat about...anything you can think of...and yet we don't have a robot that could go into your house clear the dinner table”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 7/7/2026, 3:38:35 AM
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