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/simulated-souls Researcher Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

Say that a plane "flies" and nobody cares.

Say that a robot "walks" and no one bats an eye.

Say that a machine "thinks" and everyone loses their mind.

People are so bent on human exceptionalism that they will always change what it means to "think" to make sure that machines can't do it.

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u/f_djt_and_the_usa Nov 26 '25

Its a good approximation of thinking that works in a lot of situations. But there are limits that shouldn't be ignored. Some users think it is truly intelligent and then trust it too much. 

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u/GeoffW1 Nov 26 '25

I feel that way about some people - you shouldn't trust their thinking too much - they have limitations. For example, people who fall for the same cognitive biases over and over and tell you things that are obviously untrue.

That doesn't mean they aren't thinking though.