NYU professor: LLMs fundamentally solved common sense; physical world is next
ipeirotis · x · 2026-09-28
NYU professor ipeirotis argues LLMs have fundamentally solved the "common sense" and "everyday context" problem for knowledge tasks — the very reason they're useful — and that the "stochastic parrot" crowd was plainly wrong. He cites a comparison: dismissing passenger planes as "not really planes" mirrors revisionist takes on LLMs. Physical-world common sense, however, remains unsolved and is the next major research frontier.
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