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Pivot to AI: Hallucinations worsen as the money runs out

Remember when AI had proper hallucinations? Eyeballs! Spurious dogs!

Unfortunately, the venture-capital-funded AI industry runs on the promise of replacing humans with a very large shell script — including in areas where details matter. Thirteenth paragraph, halfway down: Yann LeCun of Facebook admits that reasoning is a “big missing piece” — not only do the models not do it, the companies don’t know how to do it. It looks like it’ll be getting a lot of valuable new authentic human interactions from honeypot sites designed to waste the time of spammy web crawlers.

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