About whether AI is fundamentally defective until it can say where it learned things.
Has this happened?
Yes 16 (14%)Not sure 22 (19%)No 76 (67%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI is fundamentally defective until it can say where it learned things.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Until AI can consistently and correctly answer to “where did you learn that?”, it is fundamentally defective as a technology and should absolutely be out of the question for attempts at AGI.