What can LLMs do and more importantly, not do?

A very interesting position paper worth a read for any follower of AI: “ LLMs Can't Jump: Why the Abductive Leap is the Final Frontier of AI Discovery.” The thought is simple. AI may be good at some forms of inference, like deduction and induction, but it is not able to do the third type: abduction. “ While AI can compress data (Induction) and prove theorems (Deduction), it cannot yet recreate the…