An AI that only predicts, never writes: DOOM demo pitches prediction engine over LLM paradigm

danshipper · x · 2026-09-16

NickADobos highlights a counterintuitive new direction: an AI that can't write text and only makes arbitrary predictions. He argues this is conceptually closer to actual brains than LLMs — "not a text engine, a prediction thinking engine" — and points to a DOOM demo buried in the thread. The demo flips the "stochastic parrot" critique: swap text generation for general prediction and you get a different kind of intelligence.

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An AI that only predicts, never writes: DOOM demo pitches prediction engine over LLM paradigm

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