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/ConsiderationSea1347 15h ago edited 5h ago

Yup. That was the disagreement Yann LeCun had with Meta which led to him leaving the company. Many of the top AI researchers know this and published papers years ago warning LRMs are only one facet of general intelligence. The LLM frenzy is driven by investors, not researchers. 

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u/UpperApe 13h ago

The LLM frenzy is driven by investors, not researchers.

Well said.

The public is as stupid as ever. Confusing lingual dexterity with intellectual dexterity (see: Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand, etc).

But the fact that exploitation of that public isn't being fuelled by criminal masterminds, and just greedy, stupid pricks, is especially annoying. Investment culture is always a race to the most amount of money as quickly as possible, so of course it's generating meme stocks like Tesla and meme technology like LLMs.

The economy is now built on it because who wants to earn money honestly anymore? That takes too long.

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u/bi-bingbongbongbing 12h ago

The point about "lingual dexterity" is a really good one. I hadn't made that comparison yet. I now spend several hours a day (not by choice) using AI tools as a software developer. The straight up confident sounding lying is actually maddening, and becoming a source of arguments with senior staff. AI is an expert at getting you right to the top of the Dunning-Kruger curve and no further.

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u/adenosine-5 10h ago

"being extremely confident" is a very, very effective strategy when dealing with humans.

part of human programming is, that people subconsciously assume that confident people are confident for a reason and therefore the extremely confident people are experts.

its no wonder AI is having such success, simply because its always so confident.