Cargo Cult AI
>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?"This claim seems over general, because you can ask gpt-4 'Why' and 'How' questions and it seems to do a pretty good job.The author doesn't provide a lot of contrary evidence.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.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!