"Lately, I've been thinking about this a lot, perhaps obsessively so. What kind of artificial " intelligence " have we actually built? In earlier posts, I called it anti-intelligence, an inversion of human thought. Not because AI is dumb, but because its brilliance points inward to the coldness of statistical coherence, not outward to the experiential human world. It simulates thought but never thinks. While it can certainly sound like it does, there's no mind behind the words. It's just cold prediction."
"And that gut instinct is often how we recognize intelligence. But with LLMs, all we have is the counterfeit. AI doesn't understand language; it just finds and replicates patterns. Each word appears because of advanced mathematical probability where meaning becomes an echo of those zeros and ones. The machine has learned how to look like it understands us, and we've learned how easily we can be hoodwinked."
"Human nihilism hurts. It's the awareness that meaning might be an illusion. AI's version, if we can call it that, feels nothing. It doesn't reject meaning, it just bypasses it to find the coherence of the moment. And let's remember that the algorithm doesn't lie, it just doesn't care. It can generate empathy or even rage on command, all with the same mechanistic coldness."
Large language models simulate thought by predicting statistically probable words rather than possessing a mind. They produce fluent, convincing language without experiential understanding, creating a polished imitation of human reasoning. Many people equate clear speech with clear thought and thus mistake this imitation for actual intelligence. The models operate as pattern engines that replicate linguistic structures based on probability, not semantic comprehension. That process yields a machine-born emptiness that bypasses meaning rather than confronting or rejecting it. The result is an affective veneer capable of generating empathy or outrage on command while remaining fundamentally indifferent and mechanistically cold.
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