Comment by hashmap

You're missing the point here. He's not talking about whether or not they can learn facts or inferences derived from the text itself, but the more holistic intuition that results from learning from something like an embodied experience in the physical world. GPT-6 Astras web demo homepage thing is an example. It chose euclidean rather than quaternion for letting a user rotate the galaxy thing, and anyone who has ever used hands to rotate something would immediately recognize on trying it that something is fucked and you shouldnt do that. Thats the kind of common sense physics that is inherently beyond these llms and I run into it ALL the time in vr programming.