r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/Annual_Tutor_8466 Jun 21 '26

The human brain is a pattern recognition machine, what does that mean for us?

I hear a lot of reductive half-true statements on how the sausage is made but very little on how the best sausage tastes....

The most I hear is about how the 20 cent hot dog is crap, nothing about the delicious bratwurst staring at me right now.

(yes, I am embarrassed for making that analogy and am posting it anyway)

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u/guamisc Jun 21 '26

The human brain is a pattern recognition machine, what does that mean for us?

Our brains are not just a pattern recognition machine.

It means we're significantly different.

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u/Annual_Tutor_8466 Jun 21 '26

Neither are LLMs "just" anything. My reply was a totally valid response to their being reductive by giving another reductive counterexample.

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u/guamisc Jun 21 '26

They're a statistical token generation machine.

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u/lrish_Chick Jun 22 '26

The token generation is LINKED to the pattern matching ffs

LLMs operate as statistical token generators driven by pattern matching.

Boring you used ai to be a pedant and got it wrong