AI Systems Are Just Compression and Sampling, Developer Argues

Developer gerardsans pushes back against mystical narratives about AI, arguing LLMs fundamentally perform compression and sampling with no physical reality in strings. He offers a falsifiable test: models trained only on phone books, transactions, and black pixels can never produce weekdays, colors, or cats.

2026-10-17 ~ 2026-10-17 · 2 related posts

• AI systems are just compression and sampling — no physical reality in strings — gerardsans · 2026-10-17
• Train AI on phonebooks and transactions — no weekdays, colors or cats emerge — gerardsans · 2026-10-17