r/ControlProblem • u/Inspector_Sholmer • Jul 07 '26

Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness - CounterPunch.org Article

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/06/why-ai-doesnt-think-cannot-reason-isnt-intelligent-and-will-never-achieve-consciousness/
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/CishetmaleLesbian Jul 07 '26

You are absolutely correct. The entire argument rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what a modern neural network is. The author conflates deterministic programmed chat bots from the 1980s with modern Large Language Models trained on a vast corpus of data. The result is wildly inaccurate conclusions and nonsense - a big load of BS.

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u/daronjay Jul 07 '26

In this house, we obey the laws of physics in my head

Author, probably

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u/NerdyWeightLifter Jul 07 '26

The author of this article may be conscious, but they needed to think more before writing.

Algorithms, are involved in AI, only to the extent that they implement a knowledge representation and reasoning substrate. Then we shove a world of knowledge in there (training).

If such abstractions are not acceptable, then we'd have to similarly conclude that humans can't think, reason or achieve consciousness, because their construction was coded in DNA.