The AI Con by Emily M. Bender

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• azakai · 2026-06-04 in Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

  If you want examples of this, see the recent book "The AI Con" https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/217432753-the-ai-con which describes LLMs as "souped-up autocomplete", complex statistics that cannot truly understand anything. A more recent example is this paper: https://zenodo.org/records/20071869 which says, > [LLMs], as turbo-charged statistical models (recall their formal relation to logi…