Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
by chongli on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:02AM
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Having knowledge isn't the same as knowing. I can hold a stack of physics papers in my hand but that doesn't make me a physics professor.
LLMs possess and can retrieve knowledge but they don't understand it, and when people try to get them to do that it's like talking to a non-expert who has been coached to smalltalk with experts. I remember reading about a guy who did this with his wife so she could have fun when travelling to conferences with him!
LLMs possess and can retrieve knowledge but they don't understand it, and when people try to get them to do that it's like talking to a non-expert who has been coached to smalltalk with experts. I remember reading about a guy who did this with his wife so she could have fun when travelling to conferences with him!