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Niko Sagiadinos • Edited

I appreciate the analogy, but I disagree that it's just a semantic argument.

The distinction between LLMs and true AI is crucial because it defines the fundamental limitations of the tool. Your car analogy doesn't quite fit:

An EV is a car because it serves the same function (transportation) and obeys the same physical rules (gravity, friction). An LLM is not intelligence; it is a statistical simulation of language produced by intelligence.

The core problem: The current approach (LLM) is fundamentally designed to be a simulation, a highly trained autocomplete machine. You cannot upgrade a simulation concept into an original.

If we want real general intelligence, we need a completely different conceptual and architectural approach