Peter Berezin says LLMs may be a dead end to superintelligence
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-29
Peter Berezin argues that LLMs may be a dead end on the path to superintelligence. The attached image shows a Google DeepMind paper-style position piece titled “LLMs can’t jump”, which argues that current LLMs can handle induction and deduction but lack the abductive “jump” needed for genuine scientific discovery and invention.
The paper frames discovery as a cycle from sensory experience to axioms and then to deduction, and says modern LLMs are missing the mechanism to generate novel explanatory hypotheses. It suggests that bridging this gap likely requires physically grounded multimodal world models rather than text-only scaling.
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