alt Hacker News[1] is not a valid proof LeCun was wrong, LLMs still can't do spacial reasoning when it can't be derived from the training data. He didn't argue that GPT 5000 won't be able to describe something with words.
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widdershins • yesterday at 8:50 AM
I've seen recent AIs make detailed and technically impressive 3D models. You might argue "they're not doing spatial reasoning, they're making measurements with code and doing math to configure relative positions". Fine, but at a certain point that becomes functionally indistinguishable from spatial reasoning.
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mistercow • yesterday at 5:18 PM
> when it can't be derived from the training data
This sounds like a goalpost on wheels. Can you define clearly where your stake in the ground is?
simianwords • yesterday at 6:24 AM
we have benchmarks proving it can do spatial reasoning.
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This really doesn't match my experience. I can ask an LLM to modify engineering plans using vague natural language prompts and it will find the right place in the plan from the description and then make appropriate modifications, which necessarily requires doing spacial reasoning.