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Scaling Up is Not Going to Make Large Language Models Intelligent

ChatGPT-5 misunderstood the jab in a simple Will Rogers joke five out of six times

Bigger data centers are not going to change the harsh reality that LLMs are prone to generating unreliable blather.

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Urban Pigeons: A Sunlit Gathering in City Steps

Part 2: Have the Superbirds Arrived? Are They Taking Over?

Dr. Avian now claims that his work with trained birds show that intelligence does not require inner models or internal representations, as formerly thought

Avian is perfectly clear: There is no mind at all in Coordinated Avian Models (CAMs). And yet, they’re behind a staggering number of new designs.

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Move Over, AI. Bird Brains Are Giving You a Run for Your Money

Could ten thousand birds develop a theory of mind just by scaling? A tale in three parts

Dr. Avian was sure that he had found a formula for intelligence without anything like a human mind, and his program appeared to be working.

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