“The only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, spamming & scamming”– Ted

–“The only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, spamming & scamming”– Ted Gioia, via Substack.

Well, I’ve said that it’s a better search engine, and it certainly helps with code production and automation.

But the problem is that the LLM architecture, without the promise of the emergence of world modeling, cause effect modeling, and attention-recursion trees (and self falsification), is just DUMB AS A ROCK.

We’ve considered that we can train one of the LLMs to produce reasonably consistent legal judgements using the natural law, if and only if, we write our law as program code – something that’s rather simple, because for all intents and purposes we’ve written the law as an operational (pseudo-computational) programming langauge.

But yes, while the fad is dying out, I don’t think the R&D is really more than 20% of the way to an AGI than is more useful than a search synthesizer and spam generating engine. So I agree with the point, but disagree that AI’s not still got plenty of promise.