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If AI is going to take over the world, why can't it solve the Spelling Bee?
AI can now create images, video and audio as fast as you can type in descriptions of what you want. It can write poetry, essays and term papers. So why does it suck so hard at solving a simple word puzzle?
Meta AI helpfully told me that it made sure to only include words that are recognized by dictionaries in a list that contained NALYP and NAGY, while Perplexity — a chatbot with ambitions of killing Google Search — simply wrote GAL hundreds of times before freezing abruptly. Some experts, like Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, have been outspoken about the limitations of large language models, claiming that they will never reach human-level intelligence since they don’t really use logic. Over the last few months, the world’s largest tech companies – Microsoft, Meta, Samsung, Apple, and Google – have made declarations to tightly weave AI into their products, services and operating systems.
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