Can AI Think? A Redditor Argues LLMs Can't Do What No Human Has Done
omeren93 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Redditor publishes a short essay asking whether AI can truly think, concluding "yes and no":
- Yes: current LLMs like Claude and Gemini understand nearly anything an adult can say, maintain long-context awareness, and can apply deduction, induction, and hypothesis testing
- No: originality remains elusive — AI can do what humans have done in digital environments, but not what no human has done before
Using Einstein as an example: an AI in 1905 would have produced Newtonian-derived answers, never relativity, because "there's no instruction manual for creativity on the Internet."
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