One of the things all the people posting screenshots “proving” that LLMs can reason forget to consider is that the hypothetical objects being reasoned about have never been experienced by the models they are testing. What could a sentence like “The cup is tipped over and the penny falls out” possibly mean to something that has never seen a cup or a penny? Words describe things. LLMs can’t recognize or understand “things” because they have never experienced “things.” 1/2