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Because today’s “AIs” are glorified T9 predictive text machines. They don’t have “self-awareness.”
Finally, T10
I think "contextual awareness" would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it's great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn't fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.
Ah, of course. The model isn't wrong, it's the input that's wrong. Yes, yes. Please give me investment money now.