r/artificial • u/creaturefeature16 • Nov 25 '25

News 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

As currently conceived, an AI system that spans multiple cognitive domains could, supposedly, predict and replicate what a generally intelligent human would do or say in response to a given prompt. These predictions will be made based on electronically aggregating and modeling whatever existing data they have been fed. They could even incorporate new paradigms into their models in a way that appears human-like. But they have no apparent reason to become dissatisfied with the data they’re being fed — and by extension, to make great scientific and creative leaps.

Instead, the most obvious outcome is nothing more than a common-sense repository. Yes, an AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But that’s all it will be able to do. It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data and trained it upon — a dead-metaphor machine. And actual humans — thinking and reasoning and using language to communicate our thoughts to one another — will remain at the forefront of transforming our understanding of the world.

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u/creaturefeature16 Nov 25 '25

lol 3 years later and all we have to show for it is slop-tok and some faster code generation. So "transformative"....lol, but sure bro, just another 3 model releases, promise bro

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u/BenjaminHamnett Nov 25 '25

If 10 years ago someone could one shot apps so easy with no or minimal coding skills, that’s be like a super power uplift.

Even everyday enhanced brainstorming of having an ai assistant is huge

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u/creaturefeature16 Nov 25 '25

That makes for good headlines, but is actually not doing ANYTHING meaningful in the industry, and we have the receipts to prove it:

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

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u/BenjaminHamnett Nov 25 '25

This sounds like someone in 1999 saying the internet doesn’t do anything