LLMs succeed remarkably on tasks with abundant training data where consequences are low (e.g., recipe generation); they struggle with tasks requiring real-world embodied action (e.g., a robot clearing a table and loading a dishwasher) because no LLM is good at robotic AI, and because real-world action carries real consequences.

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Speaker

Michael Waldridge

Evidence Quote

large language models succeed in remarkable ways and they are genuinely impressive achievements but they succeed on tasks where there are huge amounts of data available and in some sense where the consequences of what they do just doesn't really matter that much

Source

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI HistoryJohnathan Bi
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM

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