LLMs mimic language, not intelligence. When was the last time an LLM walked into a random kitchen and boiled an egg? When was the last time an LLM learned to walk on its own, using its own sensor s and effectors? Moreover, the only reason that LLMs can mimic language is that they are cheating by stealing the work of millions of human beings who did the hard intelligent work. LLMs are not based on any new understanding of intelligence. They are based on old linguistic science that predates the AI field. Linguists have known for a long time that language is highly statistical, i.e., contextual. LLMs calculate the stats and store them in tokens. This is not intelligence. 🤔 Deep down, every LLM is dumb as a rock. 😀

This is half true. Amodei TALKED like an effective altruist but Anthropic's actions are the exact opposite. It was all covert marketing.

Amodei: Our AI is so advanced, it's almost conscious and might decide to delete humanity. US gov: Ok, your AI is banned. Amodei: It's not fair. Me: I love it when they step in their own bullshit. 😂

Our economic system (corporations, stock market and usury) were designed and built by thieves for thieves. So, I'm not in the least bit surprised. None of it will end well. 😠

Isaac Newton, of course. Newton's lifework exemplified the importance of Occam's razor to science before it was cool. He took an absolute mess of experimental data meticulously accumulated over many centuries and reduced them to a single equation for the force of gravity. Newton taught us the power of simple principles. It was a tour de force. As a researcher who studies the brain, I believe that neuroscience will be revolutionized one day by the discovery and application of a set of simple principles. AGI is coming and it will be a neuroscience solution. 🤔

So what is the problem with treating AI as a religion? Isn’t everyone free to practice whatever religion they want? First, if AI is a new religion, then let’s be frank about it. When people preach about this new religion, its savior, and the hope for abundance, we should treat it as it is: preaching. Second, as most governments openly embrace AI development and tie it to their political and economic plans, AI is officially the world’s most powerful religion, entering schools, workplaces, governments, and every single human institution. We have never seen a process like that in human history. Third, it’s a strange new religion developed and fine-tuned by humans, based on design choices made by the top engineers at a handful of tech companies. We must recognize that these tech companies will soon have unimaginable power. Fourth, AI might soon become the world’s most destructive religion as well. AI is effectively replacing human cognitive processes, making humans feel inefficient and unnecessary as it slowly overtakes human capabilities in almost every single cognitive task. For the first time in history, humans will feel like they are not the smartest beings on Earth. Religions often foster the idea that humans should focus on improving themselves, doing good deeds, and helping others. AI is a different religion in that it’s essentially agnostic. Its dogmas are all forms of meta-worship, as we see them play out in 2026: “AI is cognitively superior to humans.” “AI is smarter than humans.” “AI is more creative than humans.” “Using AI is like having a PhD-level expert in all fields in your pocket.” “Efficient humans use AI.” “Effective companies are AI-first.” “Employees can prove their worth by showing how often they use AI to optimize their work.” Etc. The underlying idea is that humans are inferior and expendable. I have never seen a major religion that promotes such ideas. In a few years, we might discover that these ideas are utterly destructive to humans, as we need to believe in ourselves, our capabilities, our institutions, and our values to survive as a species. Unexpectedly, AI might be the biggest religious experiment in human history (...CONTINUES...) 👉 CONTINUE reading my article and join 96,700 subscribers using the link below.

This is not true. The "engineering" of computers owes nothing to Turing. The entire idea that led to the general purpose programmable computer was known long before Turing was born. Charles Babbage used it to design the analytical engine in 1837, almost 100 years before Turing's paper. Also, German engineer Konrad Suze built the first electronic binary computer in 1941 without any help from Turing or his fictitious machine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad…

Wiener was right. In the 1950s, the father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, argued that time was essential to intelligence for the same reason that it was essential to the functioning of society. He based his argument on the discovery of brain waves which he associated with timing signals. AI pioneers like John McCarthy, Herbert Simon, Allen Newell, Marvin Minsky and others, ignored Wiener and blacklisted him. They had already decided that intelligence was about formal logic and symbol manipulation. The field went through several "AI winters" and here we are, 70 years later, intelligence remains unsolved, nonstop claims and promises notwithstanding. The AI community has been traveling on the wrong road from the start and never looked back. Wiener was right about the importance of time.

"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that." ~ Linus Torvalds Correct. Regurgitating code previously designed and written by human programmers is not the same as writing code. Likewise, a 3D printer is not a sculptor. 🙄

An ant displays real intelligence with the tiniest "brain". More than any frontier ai model. If scaling brought up intelligence somehow, then ants shouldn't be intelligent, but they are.

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No. Scale is not all you need. Have the billionaire clowns that run the fake-AI mafia ever watched a jumping spider or a honeybee in action? These marvelous little creatures have tiny brains (200k and 900k neurons respectively) but can survive, navigate and prosper in highly complex 3D environments. Intelligence is not about scaling. It's about principles. The principles come first. Scaling is just engineering. During the 70 some years since the creation of the field, the AI community has not had a single breakthrough in their understanding of intelligence. Not one. The only breakthrough they've had, deep learning, has nothing to do with intelligence. It's just a computer automation technique. Definition: Nature teaches us that a system is intelligent if it can learn continually, perceive anything on the fly, set and achieve goals and quickly adapt to novel situations in the real world. DL can do none of these things. In the 1950s, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, told AI pioneers that time was an inherent part of intelligence. The yahoos ignored Wiener and blacklisted him. They had already decided that intelligence was about language, logic and symbol manipulation. So now, after all these years, we have the fake-AI mafia pushing hallucinating LLMs that cheat on a massive scale and pretend to be intelligent; and roboticists building humanoid robots that are dumb as rocks. 🙄 Dear Lord. 🤦‍♂️

It correlates with the number of products. And customers.

Yes. Deep neural nets can't learn symmetries, but why? Here are two reasons: 1. DNNs ignore discrete event timing. If AI experts revered nature, they would realize that biological brains use spiking neurons for this reason. Precise event timing is absolutely essential. It lets the system detect whether events are concurrent or sequential. There can be no intelligence without it. 2. Yin-yang symmetry is an inherent part of the brain's architecture. Every sensor or effector has an opposite. For example, an RGC neuron in the retina that detects an edge movement in one direction has a counterpart that detects an edge movement in the opposite direction. Likewise, an effector neurons that starts a motor action has a counterpart that stops the action. Yin-yang symmetry is everywhere in the brain but explaining why these things are important to a deep learning expert is a painful undertaking, like pulling teeth. 😬

No, LLMs are architecturally unable to reason. Even with whatever they have bolted on top. Many still don't get that or are paid to not. It does make sense though as looking at their posts, they are unable to reason properly themselves.

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I'm on a crusade against bullshit that is sold as science. This is one of the reasons that I research the brain. My thesis is that the bullshit will stop when true AGI arrives on the world scene. 🙏 It's not nice to lie to the world. It's a crime against humanity. We deserve some respect. 😠

When vegetarians become sci-fi fruitcakes, weird has entered the room. I wonder what these guys think of meat-eating predators like eagles, orcas, sharks, lions or wolves? Even chickens are predators. They eat insects, don't they? By the way, Patel once said in one of his videos that he was worried about future simulated farms where simulated farm animals are being tortured. 🙄 Dear Lord, I live in a clown world and the clowns are laughing at the audience. I'm not amused. 🤦‍♂️