Midjourney's David Holz says LLMs cannot estimate their own task timelines

4:02 PM · Jul 21, 2026

@karpathy @DavidSHolz It has no self and no awareness And you are profoundly unqualified to talk about these topics Because intelligence is blind to its own function While consciousness is not

ST Strata@ChainZenit

9:56 AM · Jul 21, 2026

@DavidSHolz lol i love how they get so confused by that question

AK Andrej Karpathy@karpathy

12:11 PM · Jul 21, 2026

1TECH

@DavidSHolz It's interesting/amusing how their self-awareness gradually builds up and falls out from pretraining on tokens of us talking about them, but it's laggy and a bit incomplete. But I think e.g. it's starting to "get" what I mean when I inform it I'm about to /compact its context etc

DA David@DavidSHolz

9:54 AM · Jul 21, 2026

99TECH

i love it when i ask a model how long something will take and it goes "this would take a human team 6 months!" and i reply "no, no, how long will it take YOU?" and it just sorta does a O.O and doesn't know how to measure time or its own abilities

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