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Friday, January 16, 2026

MIT Technology Review on Why AI LLMs are So Strange and So Alien

Until recently, I thought that the AI LLMs were just sort of fancy, souped-up search engines.  Google on steroids.   But then they started getting simple things wrong.  And they seemed to understand that that our April 1 stories were just sarcasm.  There seemed to be more to them than fancy search engines.  

This MIT article explains what is going on with the LLMs.  

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1129782/ai-large-language-models-biology-alien-autopsy/

What do you folks think of this?


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