{"id":12447,"date":"2025-06-16T07:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:50:21","slug":"ai-just-an-autocomplete-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/ai-just-an-autocomplete-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, just an autocomplete machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are the LLM&#8217;s just an expensive, autocomplete machine? I have been saying this since a close colleague first suggested it. Now some serious compter scientists are saying the same. Here are some notes and links &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I found this article on Medium, which is behind their password wall. It&#8217;s called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ninza7.medium.com\/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0\">Apple just pulled the plug on the AI Hype. Here\u2019s What Their Shocking Study Found&#8221;<\/a>, it references a paper from Apple called, <a href=\"https:\/\/machinelearning.apple.com\/research\/illusion-of-thinking\">&#8220;The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parshin Shojaee*, Iman Mirzadeh*, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad Farajtabar. 2025. The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity. <a href=\"https:\/\/ml-site.cdn-apple.com\/papers\/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ml-site.cdn-apple.com\/papers\/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the LLM&#8217;s just an expensive, autocomplete machine? I have been saying this since a close colleague first suggested it. Now some serious compter scientists are saying the same. Here are some notes and links &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2012,2011,911],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/114691946545518378","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AI-nahrizulkadri-unsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12449,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions\/12449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}