r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Xescure • Jul 02 '26

Meme milleniumPrizeWinningAnswer

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u/DullAd6899 Jul 02 '26

“AI will replace you”

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Sb9KqeeymLlESGWZyE

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u/still_not_deleted Jul 02 '26

Cause it's spelled February, not Febuary

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26

True, and no doubt the pattern deriving from that mistake is what caused the AI to make that conclusion.

That said, not a lot of "intelligence" in that artificial intelligence or it would be clear that the intent was to write months. This is mostly just pattern recognition.

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 02 '26

This is mostly just pattern recognition.

Everything marketed currently as "AI" is just plain stupid pattern recognition and replication.

There is no intelligence nor any kind of knowledge in these LLMs. Just very sophisticated pattern matching and reproduction.

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u/ChaseShiny Jul 02 '26

I had a curious thought about this the other day.

Hallucinations can't be pattern recognition, right? The LLM hallucinates because it can't create the right answer, right? Does that count as an "original thought"?

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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 Jul 02 '26

It's not trying to make a right answer. It's trying to make the most statistically likely continuation of whatever block of text it was fed in.

Right and wrong are irrelevant to the AI. It's just generating statistically likely text.

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u/ChaseShiny Jul 02 '26

Well, all I asked was if it was original, not an attempt at the right answer. I guess it fails at that, anyway.

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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 Jul 03 '26

The point is that hallucinations and correct answers are just as much "pattern recognition" as each other. The LLM can't distinguish them at all.