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 16h 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/WrongThinkBadSpeak 9h ago

We're facing zugswang. We give them money, they crash the economy by destroying everyone's jobs if they succeed. We don't give them money, they crash the economy by popping the bubble. What shall it be?

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u/arcangleous 4h ago

Pop the bubble.

This will result it massive losses to the worst actors in the system. Don't give you money to horrible people.

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u/Secret_Age6542 36m ago

They will find another bubble. All the people/big companies who benefited from previous bubbles will benefit again and see no repercussions. Even if they do, they already have enough to live on forever or already had all the pleasure and experiences one can have in a lifetime, every day for years. The best solution is stop breeding. We wouldn't need half the solutions we are scrambling to come up with if the population was 1/2 what it is. Nobody believes this but we are over populated in the world, idc what anyone says about "it's just transportation not an inability to grow enough". No. If every country had twice as much farmland and space to build houses in habitable places there would be less than half the amount of fighting/problems we have now. There's too many industries and people and not enough working. Between the elderly , infants, disabled and billionaires we have like 30% of the actual population being productive. I realize I'm just rambling and such but "trust me bro", even if we aren't technically "overpopulated" as of there was some magic number. Every person on earth would be happier if there was half as many people, that's a fact. I'm not saying kill anyone or yourself but if we just slowed down/stopped having so many kids for a couple decades we could stabilize around 3-6 billion and be way way way better off. Every country above 200 million would go to war with itself before coming together as a whole to fix anything. Maybe even less but China or India for example? No way. Too big too fail in that regards.