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A Bursting Bubble Would Be Great for A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/opinion/ai-bubb...Large language models, for all their wonders, can only predict the next thing a human would say. Train one on texts from the late 1800s and it won’t invent airplanes or rockets. It will channel ideas from that period, when leading scientists thought human flight was impossible. If we only scale up our current approach, wasting money on fast-obsolete chips and energy-guzzling data centers, we won’t progress beyond our current technology, which still yields limited, mediocre results.
Better A.I. would remember what it learns, just as humans do, and squeeze more work from each watt. Tech companies spend billions of dollars running large language models that don’t learn while they run. A tool that does both simultaneously would come closer to approximating the human brain, allowing it to innovate more readily.Is that really how they work? If they can hold a conversation, they must remember what was said previously.
I tried using Perplexity for a programming problem I had. It faithfully reproduced what the equipment manufacturer's manuals said, and collected it in a nice, easy to read format. Yeah, not useful. I'd already read the manual before I consulted Perplexity. I guess I could have saved time by finding out a bit quicker that the manual was wrong.
