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Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti... by ozgung on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:58AM (#49961936)
Similar to asking how many 'r's in raspberry to a Chinese person when speaking through interpreter. They would answer 0 because there are no 'r's in Chinese. And they would say raspberry has just two letters, tree and berry.
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Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti... by mdp2021 on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:55AM (#49963670)
No, that is really not the point.

"Count the 'r's in the string 'raspberry'" is the same as "Count the joints in the Tasmanian sand spider": it means, "can you instance in idea and assess it and perform procedures over it - for example, can you count?".

We want to be sure it can count. We have seen it may guess, it may construe, it may recall - we instead demand it checks. We cannot trust it without that.

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