what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence? and if you can agree that…

what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence? and if you can agree that “If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it will just try to imitate reasoning without doing it”, why acknowledge the possibility of imitation when it gets wrong but not when it gets it right? seems like a double standard? Whatever AI sceptics say, LLMs really can reason. They're not just doing an imitation that looks like reasoning, it's the real deal. But even though they are able to reason, sometimes they won't! If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it will just try to imitate …

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-09