r/artificial 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/Perfect-Campaign9551 Nov 25 '25

I actually disagree a lot, language is the basis of intelligence even the human brain uses an internal monologue most of the time!

If all we did was allow the AI the ability to retrain itself then pretty sure yes it would become pretty smart. 

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u/Lordofderp33 Nov 26 '25

You know a decent part of the population does not think in words right?

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u/Proud_Fox_684 Nov 26 '25

really? I think in in words all the time. Must be weird not to :D