Why Large Language Models will Never be Embodied: A Categorical, Not Engineering, Impossibility
A persistent ambition in artificial intelligence research holds that large language models (LLMs) will eventually become embodied—through attachment to robots, augmentation with multimodal sensors, integration into vision–language–action architectures, or sheer scale until grounding emerges from training data. This ambition rests on a misunderstanding of embodiment. Embodiment is a constitutive co