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Frontier AI Reveals Less Understanding Than Airplanes or Birds

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davidad 🎇@davidad#469inTech

In the case of frontier AI, humanity knows less about what we’ve built than we know about airplanes *or* birds. LLMs almost completely fail to satisfy the primary *original* motivation for AI research, which was to advance the science of human cognition.

davidad 🎇@davidad

Airplanes do not need flapping wings in order to carry people and goods through the sky, but they *would* need flapping wings in order to convince someone that humanity actually understands how birds work in enough detail to build an accurate fully functional bird from scratch.

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davidad 🎇@davidad

But that won’t stop near-future LLMs from automating your job.

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In the case of frontier AI, humanity knows less about what we’ve built than we know about airplanes *or* birds. LLMs almost completely fail to satisfy the primary *original* motivation for AI research, which was to advance the science of human cognition.

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gnostic snakes@gnostic_snakes

@davidad i would say they are far from completely failing, it's just a matter of time

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davidad 🎇@davidad

@gnostic_snakes Fair, I should have said “so far almost completely”.

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