A reflection on the LLM debate and AI epistemology
antirez · x · 2026-07-20
A short reflection on the long-running LLM debate: the author argues that some critical thinking was enough to realize these systems were never just simple next-token guessers, and says the episode will end up in the history of how we understand knowledge.
The reply adds that recent results also undermine another mistaken belief — that many AI scientists who were skeptics about LLMs were right — and notes that even experts in the field can make obvious errors because AI is still not fully understood.
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