GPT-5 has an IQ of 360… and my toaster meditates on Kant

GPT-5 has an IQ of 360… and my toaster meditates on Kant

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Episode description

I’m fed up with talk smothered in syrupy storytelling that turns a statistical engine into an Enlightenment philosopher. Fed up with these new AI “gurus”, freshly converted, who confuse producing fluent sentences with building a thought.

They would have us believe that an LLM meditates like an old sage beneath a bonsai, when all it does is churn billions of sentence fragments, like a cocktail shaker shaken at full speed. They dress it up with wisdom when it is merely a clever stochastic parrot, able to mimic intonation but incapable of grasping the deeper meaning of its own words.

SO, DEFINITELY NOT: AN LLM DOES NOT THINK.

And to go on claiming otherwise is to admit that you do not know how it really works.

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