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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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Why did anyone think that a LLM would be able to solve logic or math problems?
They’re literally autocomplete. Like, 100% autocomplete that is based on an enormous statistical model. They don’t think, they don’t reason, they don’t compute. They lay words out in the most likely order.
To be fair it’s pretty amazing they can do that from a user prompt - but it’s not doing whatever it is that our brains do. It’s not a brain. It’s not “intelligent”. LLMs are machine learning algorithms but they are not AI.
It’s a fucking hornswoggle, always has been 🔫🧑🚀
Because that's how they're marketed and hyped. "The next version of ChatGPT will be smarter than a Nobel laureate" etc. This article is an indictment of the claims these companies make.
So fraud. It would be nice to get another FTX verdict at the very least. It could make those shit CEOs thinking twice before lying to peoples faces if it means years in prison.
In this administration? heh.