
- 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.