AI is different enough from us to redefine intelligence itself without ever understanding what that means.
LLMs can fail when faced with irrelevance, exposing structural brittleness beneath coherence.The other day, I found myself at the center of an unexpected controversy. I suggested that large language models may not represent, but stands in opposition to it. It's not a mirror, but a kind of cognitive counterfeit that's fluent, convincing, and fundamentally ungrounded and untethered to our humanity.
At the bottom right: the large language model. It’s stateless, distributed, high-dimensional and has no memory. It has no “self.” But it excels at one thing and that's coherence without continuity. It’s not a mind, but seeks patterns it doesn't understand. That’s the asymptotic illusion. AI doesn’t need to be intelligent. It just needs to act the part. And do it at scale, with speed, and without hesitation. The simulation becomes “good enough,” and function starts to look like something that is foundational.
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