LLMs fail on basic physical reasoning (e.g., whether to walk to a car wash 100m away) and exhibit no real understanding of physical intuition, instead performing retrieval-based responses fine-tuned on human feedback.

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Speaker

Yann LeCun

Evidence Quote

most most LLMs... ChatGPT... Claude... all of those say yes you should walk because it's only 100 m away like not realizing you're not going to have your car with you.

Source

Yann LeCun: Special Lecture on AI and World ModelsAl-Khwarizmi Applied Mathematics Webinar
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:03:11 PM

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