Cargo Cult AI
&gt;Today&#x27;s AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of &quot;Why?&quot; and &quot;How?&quot;<p>This claim seems over general, because you can ask gpt-4 &#x27;Why&#x27; and &#x27;How&#x27; questions and it seems to do a pretty good job.<p>The author doesn&#x27;t provide a lot of contrary evidence.<p>There&#x27;s so many articles saying &quot;LLMs can&#x27;t do X&quot; that leave me wondering whether the author has even tried. Maybe they&#x27;ve tried and have some more sophisticated argument, but I often don&#x27;t see it.<p>If I was going to knock LLMs for being unable to do basic science, in particular, I&#x27;d make sure to do some experiments first!