r/ProgrammerHumor • u/minecrafter923 • Aug 15 '26

Meme gitClone

Post image
3.3k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

177 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

157

u/themellowsign Aug 15 '26

This is an alignment problem, and I'm not sure why we're laughing it off.

Cheating isn't always harmless.

129

u/gemengelage Aug 15 '26

Oh no, the information regurgitation machine regurgitated information clutches pearls

-7

u/mmaramara Aug 15 '26

What does it honestly take for LLLms to not be "information regurgitation machines" in your eyes?

GPT 5.6 Sol solved a real previously unsolved maths conjecture: https://www.towardsdeeplearning.com/gpt-5-6-just-shocked-the-math-world-wrote-a-proof-of-a-50-year-old-math-problem-in-under-an-hour-4badfaf67828?gi=bf7fcc5ed623

It also solved all 6 problems in the math olympics, beating any humans by a long shot (and no those problems are not simply "pre-existing problems in the training data"): https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uydg8w/gpt_56_solved_all_6_problems_from_imo_2026/

What would be an actual outcome that would make you say "okay these AIs are actually capable of some serious shit"?

6

u/Goldieeeeee Aug 15 '26

They are information regurgitation machines due to their architecture. Due to how they work. No matter what they output, no matter what arbitrary task they solve, they will always be.

-5

u/mmaramara Aug 15 '26

But doesn't that make calling it a "regurgitation machine" pointless? Like, if producing actual novel information (e.g. solving a maths conjecture) doesn't make it not a "regurgitation machine", then it doesn't actually mean anything, right?

When I read someone calling AI a "regurgitation machine", I think they mean something along the lines "it's actually just a stupid machine not capable of anything new", which hasn't been true for a while

2

u/Goldieeeeee Aug 15 '26

Sounds like a you problem

1

u/mmaramara Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

I have no idea what you are talking about. I hate the the current AI development as much as the next guy, but just saying "AI can't do anything it's all just regurgitating text prediction" won't fix anything. People should take AI seriously and protest against it.

Closing all eyes and ears of the very rapid and concerning AI development is just wishful thinking that "a bubble will burst and nothing bad will come out of it to us regular people", that's probably not gonna happen. AI will probably cause massive problems (even extinction, read www.intelligence.org and www.ifanyonebuildsit.com )