Emily Bender's FAQ on LLM limits resurfaces, framing called 'extremely relevant' to current models
zacharynado · x · 2026-09-27
Andy Masley responds to Melanie Mitchell sharing Emily Bender's FAQ on LLM limitations. Bender maintains that current models remain fundamentally limited for the basic reasons laid out in her earlier critique — lack of grounding in the real world among them — and explicitly calls that framing "extremely relevant" to today's models. Masley concludes the FAQ mostly reinforces that current models are still quite limited. A snapshot of the ongoing debate over whether LLMs truly understand anything.
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