Column: These Apple researchers just showed that AI bots can't think, and possibly never will — Apple’s AI researchers gave these AI systems a simple arithmetic problem that schoolkids can solve. The bots flunked.

LLMs are extremely good at a type of knowledge called tacit knowledge (knowledge about something as it pertains to something else) but are extremely poor at pretty much any other type as far as I can see. It just so happens that tacit knowledge also happens to be the type of knowledge that drives natural language so it makes them looks super smart,... See more