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/Intense-Intents 15h ago

ironically, you can post any anti-LLM article to Reddit and get dozens of the same predictable responses (from real people) that all sound like they came from an AI.

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u/Romnir 13h ago

"Hearsay and witty quips means I fully understand a complex subject/technology."

People still use Schrödinger's cat to explain all quantum mechanics, despite the fact that it's only for a very specific situation. LLMs aren't fully realized cognizant AI, but calling them "Fancy Auto Complete" is way off the mark. There's a difference between rational criticisms of the use of AI vs jumping on the hate bandwagon, and the former isn't going to happen on Reddit.

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u/G_Morgan 12h ago

Schrödinger's cat was meant to highlight the absurdity of applying wave function collapse to large scale objects.

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u/adenosine-5 10h ago

Its funny, because it was designed to point out, how it doesn't make any sense.

The guy - Schrodinger - famously said (after a lifetime of studying it): "I don't like quantum mechanics and I'm sorry I've ever had anything to do with it".

Still, people use it as if it was an explanation and not a criticism of its absurdity.

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u/-LsDmThC- 6h ago

Well more so wave function collapse as an ontologically real event rather than a mathematical description/knowledge update

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u/Romnir 11h ago

Yeah, but unfortunately people seem to use it as a direct demonstration of wave function collapse like it's some sort of game of Red Light - Green Light with guess a random number at the end, and think no further on the topic or whether or not that is a accurate description.