Why do language models struggle with physical reasoning?
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Answer: They can sound fluent but lack a stable grasp of how the world works
They type too fast to check their answers — Wrong. Speed is not the main issue. The deeper question is whether AI can model objects, space, and cause-and-effect in the real world.
Robotics is already solved, so there is nothing left to learn — Wrong. Robotics is exactly where the gap becomes obvious: acting in the real world is much harder than generating plausible text.
They can sound fluent but lack a stable grasp of how the world works ✓ — Correct! A model can sound fluent in language while still lacking a stable grasp of how the real world works.
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