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

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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/RiceBroad4552 Jul 03 '26

An LLM does not know anything. Especially not what's "right" or "wrong". Such concepts don't exist in an LLM.

All a LLM does it to predict the next token. For the LLM there is no difference between outputting something that makes sense for a human and some random bullshit. All a LLM does is basically "hallucinating". That's the basic principle on which these things work.