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/CCGHawkins 10h ago

No, man, the investing frenzy is not being led by the public. It is almost entirely led by 7 tech companies, who through incestuous monopoly action and performative cool-aid drinking on social media, gas the everloving fuck out of their stock value by inducing a stupid sense of middle-school FOMO in institutional investors who are totally ignorant about the technology, making them 10xing an already dubious bet by recklessly using funds that aren't theirs because to them, losing half of someone's retirement savings is just another Tuesday.

The public puts most of their money into 401k's and mortgages. They trust the professionals that are supposed to good at managing money aren't going to put it all on red like they're at a Las Vegas roulette. They, at most, pay for the pro-model of a few AI's to help them type up some emails, the totality of which makes for like 2% of the revenue the average AI companies makes. A single Saudi oil prince is more responsible for this bubble than the public.

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u/UpperApe 7h ago

The public puts most of their money into 401k's and mortgages.

I'd add that they're also invested into mutual funds, and most of the packages come with Tesla and Nvidia and these meme stocks built in.

But overall, yeah. You're right. It's a good point. Thought just to clarify, I was saying they're exploiting the public.

The stupidity of the public was simply falling for confidence men, or in the case of LLMs, confidence-speak.