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Eric Hal Schwartz

AGI is a pipe dream until we solve one big problem, AI experts say, even as Google celebrates Gemini's success

AI brain coming out of laptop screen.
  • AI researchers at NeurIPS 2025 say today’s scaling approach has hit its limit
  • Despite Gemini 3’s strong performance, experts argue that LLMs still can’t reason or understand cause and effect
  • AGI remains far off without a fundamental overhaul in how AI is built and trained

Recent successes by AI models like Gemini 3 don't disguise the more sobering message that emerged this week at the NeurIPS 2025 AI conference: that we might be building AI skyscrapers on intellectual sand.

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