LLMs Are Short-Circuiting. What Comes Next?

(forbes.com)

6 points | by nakamoto_damacy 15 hours ago ago

1 comments

  • jqpabc123 6 hours ago ago

    What comes next? A stock market crash. Most of the capital gains over the past 3 years or so are related to and have been fueled by AI investments and speculation.

    https://www.investopedia.com/ai-stocks-have-fueled-the-bull-...

    This was all totally predictable. We have no practical definition of "intelligence" but it should be intuitively obvious that it is not primarily a statistical function.

    You can't build something that you don't understand and can't define. "Emergence" is the modern equivalent of alchemy --- pure wishful thinking without any rational basis.

    A.t best, LLMs are idiot savants --- like "Rain Man". They can recall lots of data but they have a very poor grasp of reality. They may have the statistics to tell you that a candy bar doesn't cost about $100 --- but they really don't understand why. It's insane to give something like this authority or responsibility.