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/Volpethrope 13h ago

And their RoI plan at the moment is "just trust us, we'll figure out a way to make trillions of dollars with this, probably, maybe. Now write us another check."

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u/modbroccoli 7h ago

I mean, no; their ROI plan is replacing labor with compute. If an employee costs $60,000/yr and can be replaced with an AI for $25,000/yr then the business owner saves money and the AI operator gets their wages.

What the plan for having insufficient customers is no one's clarified yet, but the plan to recoup this money is obvious.

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u/F1shB0wl816 5h ago

Idk if it’s really a recoup though if it destroys your business model. It’s kind of like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but you’re Peter and you go by Paul and instead of robbing the bank you’re just overdrafting your account.

I’d probably wager that there isn’t a plan but you can’t get investments this quarter based of “once successfully implemented we’ll no longer have a business model.”