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[−]pasteleft · 2026-08-30 Sun 04:49 UTC · link
LLM is "stochastic parrot next word prediction machine"; it's just that this "stochastic parrot next word prediction machine" have proven to be smarter than most people. I mean, this already happened with AlphaGo too.
[−]BoredomIsFun · 2026-08-30 Sun 07:02 UTC · link
> to be smarter than most people.

Hell no. In very narrow tasks - yes, in vast majority, esp. involving state tracking (board games) and spatial reasoning - they are awful.