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LudwigPastorius

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6. I don't know what EvilAnnie's credentials are as an AI expert, but...

Reply to reACTIONary (Original post)

Sun Mar 1, 2026, 12:33 AM

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she seems to conflate Large Language Models with all of AI research. She then "takes down" LLMs, and by association AI proper, by saying they will never be anything but stochastic parrots. It only takes a cursory search to learn that there is more going on in AI research than LLMs and chatbots.

Sorry, but I'll take the opinions of non-anonymous experts with transparent credentials over some rando.

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