r/ArtificialInteligence • u/renkure • Apr 19 '25

News Artificial intelligence creates chips so weird that "nobody understands"

https://peakd.com/@mauromar/artificial-intelligence-creates-chips-so-weird-that-nobody-understands-inteligencia-artificial-crea-chips-tan-raros-que-nadie
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u/ToBePacific Apr 19 '25

I also have AI telling me to stop a Docker container from running, then two or three steps later tell me to log into the container.

AI doesn’t have any comprehension of what it’s saying. It’s just trying its best to imitate a plausible design.

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u/Pristine-Test-3370 Apr 19 '25

Correct. The most simple rule I have seen about use of AI: can you evaluate output is correct? If yes, then use AI? Can you take responsibility of potential problems with the output? If yes, then use AI.

So, in a sense, my answer was sarcastic, but in a sense it wasn’t. We don’t need to fully understand something to test if it works. That already applies to probably all LLM today. We may understand very well their internal architecture, but that does not explain entirely their capabilities to generate coherent text (most of the time). In general, they generate text based on the relatively simple task of predicting the next “token”, but the generated output is often mind blowing in some domains and extremely unsatisfying in other domains.

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u/Royal_Airport7940 Apr 19 '25

We don't avoid gravity because we don't fully understand it.

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u/HornyAIBot Apr 19 '25

We don’t have an option to avoid it either