What We Still Have Up On The Machines

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In What can LLMs never do? Rohit Krishnan, exposes some fascinating gaps in the AI takeover of everything.

There is no shortage of polar swinging discussions around LLMs and “AI” in general. It is either going to save humanity and single handedly make a better cocktail than any human ever could say the cheerleaders, who often have a monetary stake in this “force” (because what else is it really at this point, nebulous…). On the other side of the debate globe are the fearful and huddled masses seeing nothing but doom and gloom. This is a large camp that is quite easy to join because humans are easy to frighten and when there is lots of money to be made, it’s easy to get screwed. There is hope for these masses, that there are things the LLMs just can’t figure out which most three to four year old humans can, such as statements of equality (this is that and that is this) and interestingly, things involving words and grids. Who would have knew. The LLMs sure didn’t.