Position: LLMs Can't Jump(openreview.net)
286 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 188 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Language is inherently lossy, supporting limits on LLM understanding and creative leaps
  • The paper's argument is unrigorous opinion lacking quantitative evidence or testable claims
  • Recent LLM achievements (e.g., OpenAI unit distance result) already contradict the paper's claims
  • The limitation is the harness/environment, not LLMs themselves; embodiment enables jumps
  • LLMs fundamentally can't 'not know' or truly jump because they're search-like by nature