About whether LLMs are just word predictors or fundamentally different from humans.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether LLMs are just word predictors or fundamentally different from humans.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Do tell— how can you prove humans are any different?
Their model is constantly updating, whereas GPT or any LLM is at the mercy of its creators/maintainers to keep its knowledge sources up to date.
Once it can connect to the internet and ingest/interpret data in real-time (e.g., it knows that a tornado just touched down in Mississippi a few milliseconds after the NWS reports a touch down), then you've got a serious candidate on your hands for a legitimate pseudo-human.