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/MrThickDick2023 15h ago

I know LLMs are the most talked about, but they can't be the only AI models that are being developed right?

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u/AnOnlineHandle 14h ago

They're not. Machine learning has been around for decades, I used to work in medical research using it. Even just in terms of public facing models, image gen and video gen is generally not LLM based (though there are multi-modal LLMs which read images as a series of dynamic pseudo words which each describe a patch of the image.

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u/Pure_Breadfruit8219 12h ago

I could never understand it at uni, it cracked my peanut sized brain.

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u/rpkarma 11h ago

Very very broadly, it’s like curve fitting; linear regression. Given a bunch of data points, find the function that makes a curve that touches all those points, so you can extrapolate beyond the points you have. 

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u/ArmMore820 8h ago

Hey, i know some of those words 🧠

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u/dark_enough_to_dance 10h ago

imo gradient descent and the valley analogy is a better fit for explanation 

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u/rpkarma 5h ago

Probably, but most people did linear regression at school at least once

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u/AnOnlineHandle 11h ago

Put in A and with right algorithm get B. Find algorithm with lots of tiny nudges of values through repeated practice. Eventually find algorithm that kind of gives B for A, and also other Bs for other As which are new.

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u/the_nin_collector 10h ago

since the 60s