Artificial Insanity: Veteran Dev Argues LLMs Insult Traditional AI
NXGZ · reddit · 2026-10-12
Game developer Rich Whitehouse publishes a long essay arguing that "artificial intelligence" is a poor name for generative AI — not because of "artificial," but because lumping LLMs under AI insults the field: a 1980 video game likely had more logical branching than a modern LLM kernel. He dissects the gap between LLMs and genuine intelligence and offers predictions for how the current AI wave ends.
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