Sunday, January 04, 2026

It's Band-Aids All The Way Down

LOL! So ChatGPT doesn't read the newspaper or watch the news! Of course it doesn't. It is a computer program that only exists when it is interacting with a user. It has no persistence, no background tasks, no continuity, no conscious mind, no subconscious mind, no world model, no ... the list goes on and on and on and ...

From Gary Marcus:

Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news

Using massive numbers of humans (exact numbers unknown), GenAI companies perpetually put band-aids that they never disclose on top of their LLMs, based on human corrections, fixing each new problem as it arises. But the cycle repeats, endlessly.


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