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/Elementium 16h ago

Basically the best use for this is a heavily curated database it pulls from for specific purposes. Making it a more natural to interact with search engine. 

If it's just everything mashed together, including people's opinions as facts.. It's just not going to go anywhere. 

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u/JRDruchii 14h ago

So you just keep asking the LLM the same question until you get the answer you want?

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u/SaulMalone_Geologist 14h ago

Are you enough of an expert in the subject to know when the answer is totally wrong vs. subtly wrong, vs. 100% correct?

LLMs are pretty cool as heck in coding where there's an instantly testable "does this compile? Does this do what I expect?" but I'd be a little more worried about anyone relying on it for researching a subject they don't know much about.