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Yann LeCun warns AI tech is marching into dead end

nytimes.com

12 points by tietjens 4 days ago · 4 comments

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jakubmazanec 2 days ago

https://archive.ph/PfHcp

jqpabc123 4 days ago

In the words of Richard Stallman, it's "pretend intelligence".

The language may be structurally correct and *some* of the facts as well but any real grasp of what is being said is largely missing.

This is a direct result of a design built around probability. The overriding objective is plausibility --- not to be confused with either facts or intelligence.

  • jezze 4 days ago

    I agree as a whole but aren't all thoughts some sort of guesswork? Facts just have a higher probability?

    • jqpabc123 3 days ago

      Facts just have a higher probability?

      You and I understand this but an LLM doesn't.

      An LLM doesn't understand the difference between fact and fiction.

      It just uses probability to choose the next word. Hopefully, there are a more facts in it's database that can serve as a guide. But if not, it will just as readily use fiction to produce something that sounds plausible.

      Anything an LLM produces simply cannot be trusted and is a poor example of "intelligence".

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