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I'm halfway through this article and I like the points made thus far, which I very much agree with.

prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-

But I want to have an aside on the level to which people uncritically use the term "foundation models" and discuss "reasoning" of these models, when it is very likely that the models literally memorized all these benchmarks. It truly is like the story of the emperor's clothes. Everyone seems to be in on it and you're the crazy one being like but HE HAS NO CLOTHES. 🧵

The American Prospect · Bubble TroubleAn AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Manny Dexter

@timnitGebru

There are *many* problems with . The biggest one, the one that subsumes the rest, is that it's *expensive*

And it's not even *good* at anything useful.

They call it "hallucination" but it's really sparkling . Any human doing a job with that level of fail would have been fired long ago.