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In their recent Comment article, Eddy Keming Chen et al. argue that current large language models (LLMs) already display human-level intelligence, based on behavioural evidence (see Nature 650, 36–40; 2026). I suggest that this framing obscures a fundamental asymmetry.
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Nature 652, 534 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01094-7
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