Erik J. Larson on AI
2 quotes from Erik J. Larson on the wall, 2024 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Mind Matters, Mind Matters (Erik J. Larson).
- 2025
Today's AI is just automation, nothing more
Erik J. Larson, writing for Mind Matters in 2025, argues that what is called AI today is simply automation rather than a mind.
Other voices
- AI is automation technologyEmily Bender and Alex HannaResearcher4 September 2025
- Even the best systems available today lack anything that could be called intelligenceEmily BenderResearcher30 June 2025
- Statistics and machine learning in action, with nothing mystical behind itTeppo FelinResearcher21 November 2025
- I am completely unimpressed by LLMs and not worried about AGIDavid Sun30 October 2025
- AI is going to be both extremely unpredictable and unimaginableIlya SutskeverBuilder30 June 2025
- 2024
We don't know why they make decisions and neither do they
From an essay by Erik J. Larson on Mind Matters (2024) arguing that current AI systems are opaque even to their creators.
What it refers to
Neural networks whose internal decision process cannot be explained even by the engineers who built them.
Other voices
- Errors of discomprehensionGary MarcusResearcher25 January 2024
- Machine learning sucksYann LeCunResearcher22 December 2023
- Sleeper agentsHubinger et al.12 January 2024
- The brain is an existence proof that general intelligence is possible at allDemis HassabisBuilder28 February 2024
Mind Matters (Erik J. Larson)If AI's Don't Know What They're Doing, Can We Hope to Explain It?