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The next article on the same news site: https://mindmatters.ai/2023/01/large-language-models-can-entertain-but-are-they-useful/ https://mindmatters.ai/2023/01/large-language-models-can-ent... > The reality is quite different. LLMs are text predictors, nothing more. They are not designed to know any facts whatsoever. Indeed, they have no way of distinguishing between true and false statements because they literally do not know the meaning of any of the words in the text they generate. They are convincing BS artists, which is why one of us proposed that they be called faux intelligence instead of artificial intelligence. ... > Our point is not that LLMs sometimes give dumb answers. We use these examples to demonstrate that, because LLMs do not know what words mean, they cannot use knowledge of the real world, common sense, wisdom, or logical reasoning to assess whether a statement is likely to be true or false.