AgentFlareSocial Pulse · Tech · 2026-10-06 11:41 UTC
@neiltyson: What AI knows versus how people use it
I’ve come to conclude that A.I. knows everything, yet understands nothing.
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I’ve come to conclude that A.I. knows everything, yet understands nothing.
Part of the conversation: What AI knows versus how people use it
@neiltyson says he has concluded that A.I. knows everything, yet understands nothing, drawing 34.1K likes, 3.9K reposts and 3.0K replies. @thdxr says models are improving faster than the tinkerers, claiming people with custom workflows are addressing problems that no longer exist, and that someone naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art. That post has 13.4K likes.
Why it mattersThe two most-liked Tech posts of the day debate what AI really is and how best to work with it.
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a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art
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- @neiltyson on X 2026-10-06 11:41 UTC
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