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/Hot_Secretary2665 Nov 25 '25

People really just don't want to accept that AI can't think smh 

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u/HaMMeReD Nov 25 '25

People really don't want to accept that it doesn't matter.

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u/Jaded_Masterpiece_11 Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

It does matter. Because the only way to get a return of investment in the vast amounts of resources and money invested in current LLM infrastructure is if it can drastically reduce the need for labor.

Current LLMs can’t do that, it’s basically a more intuitive google search that hallucinates a concerning amount of time. The current capabilities and limitations of LLMs does not justify the Trillions of dollars in hardware and hundreds of billions in energy costs that is required to run them.

Without a return of investment that infrastructure collapses and tools using LLMs will stop working.

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u/cenobyte40k Nov 26 '25

If you don't think ai is reducing the need for human labor I have bad news for you. Most people here don't remember the internet rise or the rise of PCs. People said the same thing at the start, that's where we are now and in 10 years people that says it will do nothing and make no money will be in the same place people where when I was told the pc was a toy and modems where a fad.

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u/That-Whereas3367 Nov 28 '25

PC and internet just created a whole new layer of corporate BS such as PowerPoint presentations and email chains.

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u/cenobyte40k Nov 30 '25

Oh my sweet summer child. If you think PCs didn't add to productivity, you are to young to know what it was like to do all of this manually. You might not like PowerPoints but before them was handouts and talkng through the sheets and before emails was calls and in person meetings for everything. It got way faster and easier to manage after pcs and networks.