Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there.
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Claims from this post (2)
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Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.”
What we tested: Hopes that LLMs would bring us close to AGI have collapsed over the past few months.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“June, 2025: the Apple reasoning paper confirmed that even with “reasoning”, LLMs still can’t solve distribution shift, the core Achille’s heel in neural networks that I have been writing about for nearly 30 years.”
What we tested: Even with reasoning, LLMs still cannot handle distribution shift, as the June 2025 Apple paper confirmed.
Held from this post (3)
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- The record does not meet the current rules. Our reading, not assessed: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck made wildly overhyped claims about AI math achievements, and Demis Hassabis debunked them in October 2025.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: GPT-5, released in August 2025, arrived late and did not meet expectations.