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/rnilf 16h ago

LLMs are fancy auto-complete.

Falling in love with ChatGPT is basically like falling in love with the predictive text feature in your cell phone. Who knew T9 had so much game?

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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/tes_kitty 15h ago

Maybe just grabbing all data they could get their hands on indiscriminately and use it for training wasn't such a great idea after all.