Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Tom Zahavy argues that inventing scientific theories can require an abductive jump from observations to new axioms, beyond induction and deduction."

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Source title LLMs can’t jump

Source authors Tom Zahavy

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"A historical-cutoff test would train a model on knowledge predating general relativity and ask whether it could independently recreate the theory."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Can You Feel the AGI Now?

Source title Fireside Chat with Sir Demis Hassabis and Prof. Govindan Rangarajan

Source authors Indian Institute of Science

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Tweet

"François Chollet argues that changing neural-network architecture alone cannot resolve the fundamental limitations he identifies in the parametric learning paradigm."

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Source title François Chollet on the limitations of parametric learning

Source authors François Chollet

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Multimodal language models can recognize visible social scenes while remaining weak at reasoning about relationships, unobservable states and evolving social dynamics."

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Source title SIV-Bench: A Video Benchmark for Social Interaction Understanding and Reasoning

Source authors Fanqi Kong; Weiqin Zu; Xinyu Chen; Yaodong Yang; Song-Chun Zhu; Xue Feng

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"In the 2016 Florida collision, a Tesla operating with automated driving assistance failed to respond adequately to a tractor-semitrailer crossing its path and traveled underneath the trailer."

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Source title Collision Between a Car Operating With Automated Vehicle Control Systems and a Tractor-Semitrailer Truck Near Williston, Florida, May 7, 2016

Source authors National Transportation Safety Board

Source year 2017

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"On the Boeing 737 MAX, erroneous data from a single angle-of-attack sensor could activate MCAS and produce repeated nose-down stabilizer commands."

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Source title Summary of the FAA's Review of the Boeing 737 MAX

Source authors Federal Aviation Administration

Source year 2020

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Video / YouTube Embed

"Yann LeCun presents world models and joint-embedding predictive architectures as part of a research path toward autonomous machine intelligence."

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Source title A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence

Source authors Yann LeCun

Source year 2026

Confidence mid

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"World models such as V-JEPA learn predictive representations from visual recordings and can support planning for physical interactions."

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Source title V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning

Source authors Mido Assran; Adrien Bardes; David Fan; Quentin Garrido; Russell Howes; and colleagues

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Marco Palombi uses the difference between executing a recipe and experiencing the taste of a cake to illustrate his philosophical distinction between computation and meaning."

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Source title Why Computation Can't Solve Meaning (And What It Means for LLMs): the Quest for an (Im)possible Theory

Source authors Marco Palombi

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Turing’s work establishes fundamental limits on algorithmic computation, including the impossibility of a general decision procedure for certain computational questions."

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Source title On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem

Source authors A. M. Turing

Source year 1937

Confidence high

Importance mid