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Posted by zdw 4 days ago

AI is a horse (2024)(kconner.com)
433 points | 209 commentspage 3
blibble 10 hours ago|
Clever Hans is how I describe LLM agents to non-techies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

djmips 8 hours ago||
I'm worried about self driving horses.
jonplackett 13 hours ago||
All true apart you can only lead it to water - it drinks ALL the water regardless of anything else.
eightys3v3n 10 hours ago|
Except when you want it to improve something in a particular way you already know about. Then god forbid it understands what you have asked and makes only that change :/

Some times I end up giving up trying to get the AI to build something following a particular architecture or fixing a particular problem in it's provious implementations.

polmuz 11 hours ago||
https://polmuz.github.io/2026/01/04/its-a-horse.html
qwertytyyuu 8 hours ago||
There are so many nouns this applies to…
Eliezer 10 hours ago||
"2024 AI was a horse". People really like to imagine that the last 6 months constitute their true observation of the new eternal state of the future.
skapadia 4 hours ago|
Exactly. We're headed for a discontinuity, not an inflection point.
apricot 7 hours ago||
And it produces an amazing amount of horseshit.
retrocog 13 hours ago||
Some day, I imagine one will be a senator
hackable_sand 12 hours ago||
We only have enough budgeted for one joke in 2026 and this is the one.
pixl97 9 hours ago||
AI will be a senator, but only after it's 75 years old.
ttouch 8 hours ago|
this is such a good take, it makes so much sense and it's a very good answer to ai related interview questions
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