Plinz pushes back on unsupported claims that LLMs can't do X
Plinz · x · 2026-09-27
AI researcher Plinz (Albert) clarifies his position in an ongoing debate: he isn't claiming LLMs can do everything, but stays agnostic about the unknown. His real gripe is full-throated, evidence-free declarations that LLMs can't do X — and he says his recent post was deliberately designed to bait such pronouncements, which it did. He also floats an open question: whether an end-to-end trained AI converging to a causal structure similar to an evolved nervous system is really more extraordinary than the opposite conjecture.
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