What Ken Liu thinks about LLMs
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction.
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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Ken Liu has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWith the rise of AI, these scammers have been using LLMs to make their pitches far more targeted and precise.
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Our readingThe real intelligence in large language models is the knowledge encoded in human language.
Their wordsThis, by the way, is the real “intelligence” in large language models. That pattern-matching machines can do so much with so little “reasoning” is a testament to the rich cognitive trove we’ve encoded in our collective linguistic productions.