[ExI] How AI understands the world

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Gemini says that these Pure Transformers were never released because they
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> Labelling and manual adjustments are essential to LLM development.
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> Useful to most people or not, they understand the world.
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> You can give a pure model the phrase: "The capital of France is" and it
> will complete it "Paris."  Jason
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> All AI large language model reasoning still must go thru words.  We aren’t
> to the point where we can build a robot which will go about watching and
> listening, then be able to solve this kind of puzzle:
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> As I understand it, there is a standing prize of one miiilllllllion
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> Perhaps we can figure out a way to translate the images into words, hand
> the words to the AI, then see if it can find the answer.
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ChatGPT was able to view this image just fine.  2 times out of 3 trials I
ran, it got the correct answer: B.
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