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Can A Machine Truly Understand Common Sense Without A Physical Body?

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun explains why an eight-month-old human baby understands more about physical reality than the largest multi-billion parameter language model.

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Can A Machine Truly Understand Common Sense Without A Physical Body?
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The debate over machine consciousness and grounded intelligence reached a peak when Yann LeCun dissected the limitations of pure language modeling.

LeCun argued that language is a low-bandwidth slice of human intelligence. Most human and animal intelligence is perceptual and non-verbal - spatial navigation, physical intuition, and instinctive physics.

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Yann LeCun:"A cat has a mental model of the world that allows it to pounce on a mouse. No current AI system has the common sense of a house cat."
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