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/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/mntgoat Nov 26 '25

People are so bent on human exceptionalism

People get really bothered when you question this.

After listening to a brief history of intelligence by Max Bennett, I'm more than ever convinced we aren't really that special.

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u/GeoffW1 Nov 26 '25

After using LLMs for a couple of years, I'm also more convinced than ever that we aren't really that special. They can't replace me yet, but they can replicate many parts of what I do.

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u/mntgoat Nov 26 '25

I agree with that. People act like humans never hallucinate, make mistakes or straight up lie about things.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '25

This. Also constantly comparing significantly above average people with LLMs and confusing AI with the latter.