What Alexey Guzey thinks about LLMs
Writer and founder of New Science, an organisation set up to build new institutions for the life sciences. He is best known for a line-by-line audit of the sleep researcher Matthew Walker's bestseller, and for a year of interviews with more than sixty working biologists about how their field actually works. He writes at guzey.com and rewrites himself in public.
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2 dated positions, 2024 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Alexey Guzey has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldWork on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read.
No longer holdsIt’s become very difficult for me to maintain the belief in the stupidity of ChatGPT when every time I laugh at it, it ends up ridiculing me 6 months later.
SaidFirst, I’m now convinced that ChatGPT understands what it reads.
- 12 months earlier
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measuring intelligenceAGIneural networks
Their wordsThis means that working on neural networks is NOT getting us closer to AGI, except indirectly.