Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’

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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

I call them glorified spread sheets, but I see the correlation to recorders. LLMs, like most “AIs” before them, are just new ways to do line of best fit analysis.
That’s fine. Glorify those spreadsheets. It’s a pretty major thing to have cracked.
It is. The tokenization and intent processing are the thing that impress me most. I’ve been joking since the 90’s that the most impressive technological innovation shown on Star Trek TNG was computers that understand the intent of instructions. Now we have that… mostly.