Heartbreaking and blackpilling that something as culturally relevant as the Olympics wouldn't even pay real artists for real art anymore. Utterly despicable display.
AGI is not coming.
We are nowhere near AGI. What we have today is inference, not learning.
Models get trained once on huge fixed datasets, then frozen. You ask questions, they remix patterns they already saw. Nothing updates. Nothing sticks. Talking to the model does not make it smarter. It does not learn from you. Ever.
Learning is still slow, expensive - and offline.
Look at self driving. You drive around a pothole, make a U turn, and come back. The car’s AI does not learn that you just solved that exact problem. It reacts the same way every time using sensors and rules. Do this 20 times a day and it still has zero memory that the pothole exists. It just re sees it. That is why edge cases never die. There is no local learning. No accumulation.
No 'oh yeah, I’ve seen this before'
LLMs work the same way. Tell it your name and it does not remember. The only reason it looks like memory is because scaffolding keeps shoving your name back into the prompt every time and sanitizing the output.
The model itself has no idea who you are and cannot learn from interaction. It is structurally incapable.
And the scaffolding is the worst part. It is pure duct tape. Just prompts on prompts on prompts around a frozen model. When something breaks, nobody fixes learning. They add another layer. Another rule. Another retry. Another evaluator model judging the first model.
So you end up with systems that are insanely complex but mentally shallow. Debugging is hell because behavior comes from hack interactions, not a learnable core. Tiny prompt tweaks cause wild behavior shifts. Latency goes up. Costs go up. Reliability goes down. None of this compounds into intelligence. It just hides the cracks.
Until we have real persistent learning and real memory inside the system, there is no AGI.
LLMs are not built for this. You cannot prompt your way out of it. You need a totally different architecture. Yann LeCun is right.
And even then, what architecture can actually learn online, store memory, and stay stable on today’s hardware?
Best case, maybe 5-10 yrs.
Right now it is all inference. It looks magical, but the emperor has no clothes. A lot of people see it. Almost nobody says it out loud.
Disgusting and disappointing decision from the Olympics/Italians to ruin their opening ceremony by throwing in an ugly Ai-generated video after the athletes walkout
Could’ve showcased Italian craftsmanship and artists - instead of the soulless slop we got
They disrespect everyone. This isn’t a real place. There’s a few real people still. But a guy bought this place and made it where you can get paid for saying idiotic shit. There’s no way to tell if people are saying what they really feel. A bunch of fake pages. Making fake news. Making fake videos and pictures. And the only way you can tell is if you use the robot that he made too.
Italian actor and 'The White Lotus' star Sabrina Impacciatore steps up to unfold the passion, drama, and achievement of the Winter Olympic Games. 🫶
#OpeningCeremony | #MilanoCortina2026
I've spoken before about how theater physically connects with audiences in ways filmed mediums can't.
Ending your 50 year run on TV by lining all these characters up to physically greet their audience goodbye before the grand finale airs is such a heartwarming way to go.
I used to think it was cute that only in America do we trust weather predictions from a groundhog while questioning climate science—of course that was before we had infinite knowledge at our fingertips and brought back measles.
Can we not go into panic mode here? Yes we are all having our brains rewired due to big tech and their gadgets but not EVERY film student will be a director. Thats not how that works.
Smartphone addiction & distraction-viewing is replacing book reading, film watching & the ability to concentrate.
People in the arts need to become activists against big tech - or there will be no arts left to defend.