About whether language models trained to mimic text can achieve insight or general AI.
Has this happened?
Yes 13 (11%)Not sure 37 (30%)No 73 (59%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether language models trained to mimic text can achieve insight or general AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
What is the "deep reasoning" that leads one to the conclusion that a language model is capable of any kind of insight? How does training something like this to be better and better at mimicking somehow indicate something about general AI? Does reasoning ability lie somewhere on the path of better mimicry? What's the evidence for that? When is one of these going to solve the Riemann hypothesis?