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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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AI isn't real, but it's gonna ruin society anyway. There is absolutely zero possibility for genAI to develop intelligence because it's just a probablistic chatbot. It doesn't know anything; it's just rolling dice to guess what word to spit out each time. A high school student who copies his friend's calculus homework will eventually learn a little calculus. A chatbot will never learn any calculus. Claiming these genAI models will develop intelligence with better compute technology is like claiming a puppet will develop intelligence with better string technology.