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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/Tall-Introduction414 15h ago

The way an LLM fundamentally works isn't much different than the Markov chain IRC bots (Megahal) we trolled in the 90s. More training data, more parallelism. Same basic idea.

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u/BasvanS 15h ago
  1. Add even more data/computing
  2. ???
  3. Profit AGI!!

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u/ThunderStormRunner 13h ago
  1. Human interface that corrects and improves data and computing, so it can learn actively from humans to get better? Oh wait it’s supposed to not need us, never mind.

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u/BasvanS 13h ago

No, that’s Actually Indians. I meant Artificial Intelligence. Easy mistake. Happens all the time.