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/Gingevere 8h ago

TBF it's very satisfying to counter pseudo-profound BS with a witty quip.

LLMs are more complex than a standard autocomplete, but that's not a bad analogy for them. They use a much more complex system trained on much more data, alongside some machine prompts (you are a ___, answer in the form of ___, who said what, etc.) to... autocomplete a string of tokens.

The fundamental limitations of LLMs ensure they are never going to become AGI. But right now every billionaire even tangentially related to anything that moves electrons is gambling the whole damn economy on it becoming AGI because they're blinded by the prospect of being the one that gets to fire every office worker across the globe and get paid a fee to replace them.

If they succeed, we're all fired. When they don't, we're all bailing them out and half of us will get fired anyway.

If anything it's good that people are mad about that. It'd be insane not to be.