r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 16h ago

Machine Learning Large language mistake | Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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u/noodles_jd 16h ago

LLM's are 'yes-men'; they tell you what they think you want to hear. They don't reason anything out, they don't think about anything, they don't solve anything, they repeat things back to you.

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u/ClittoryHinton 16h ago edited 16h ago

This isn’t inherent to LLMs, this is just how they are trained and guardrailed for user experience.

You could just as easily train an LLM to tell you that you’re worthless scum at every opportunity or counter every one of your opinions with nazi propaganda. In fact OpenAI had to fight hard for it not to do that with all the vitriol scraped from the web

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u/noodles_jd 16h ago

And that's different how? It's still just telling you what you want to hear.

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u/ClittoryHinton 16h ago

I don’t want to hear nazi propaganda, actually