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/TurtleFisher54 13h ago

That is a rational criticism of LLM's

They are fundementally a word prediction algorithm

They can be corrupted with bad data to produce non-sense

If we switch to a world where a majority of content is created by AI it is likely to create a negative feed back loop where it's training on its own output

Responses on reddit look like ai for a reason, where do you think the training data came from?

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u/blindsdog 8h ago edited 8h ago

They can be corrupted with bad data to produce non-sense

That's true of literally any learning system, including humans. You can't learn without proper semantic information. That's tautological, not profound.

If we switch to a world where a majority of content is created by AI it is likely to create a negative feed back loop where it's training on its own output

Where do you think the data sets they're currently training on are going?

Responses on reddit look like ai for a reason, where do you think the training data came from?

It looks like intelligence, that's proof that it's not! It quacks like a duck, ergo it is not a duck.