Cargo Cult AI
>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?"<p>This claim seems over general, because you can ask gpt-4 'Why' and 'How' questions and it seems to do a pretty good job.<p>The author doesn't provide a lot of contrary evidence.<p>There's so many articles saying "LLMs can't do X" that leave me wondering whether the author has even tried. Maybe they've tried and have some more sophisticated argument, but I often don't see it.<p>If I was going to knock LLMs for being unable to do basic science, in particular, I'd make sure to do some experiments first!