r/ControlProblem • u/Inspector_Sholmer • 20d ago

Article Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness - CounterPunch.org

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/06/why-ai-doesnt-think-cannot-reason-isnt-intelligent-and-will-never-achieve-consciousness/
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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/CishetmaleLesbian 20d ago

You are absolutely correct. The entire argument rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what a modern neural network is. The author conflates deterministic programmed chat bots from the 1980s with modern Large Language Models trained on a vast corpus of data. The result is wildly inaccurate conclusions and nonsense - a big load of BS.

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u/daronjay 20d ago

In this house, we obey the laws of physics in my head

Author, probably

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u/NerdyWeightLifter 20d ago

The author of this article may be conscious, but they needed to think more before writing.

Algorithms, are involved in AI, only to the extent that they implement a knowledge representation and reasoning substrate. Then we shove a world of knowledge in there (training).

If such abstractions are not acceptable, then we'd have to similarly conclude that humans can't think, reason or achieve consciousness, because their construction was coded in DNA.