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What if LLMs are mostly crystallized intelligence?

Zac Boring May 6, 2026 1 min read
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SummaryLLMs are better at developing crystallized intelligence than fluid intelligence. That is: LLM training is good at building crystallized intelligence by learning patterns from training data, and this is sufficient to make them surprisingly skillful at lots of tasks. But for a given capability level in the areas they’ve trained on, LLMs have very weak fluid intelligence compared to humans. For example, two years ago I thought human-level SAT performance would mean AGI, but turns out LLMs ca

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