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Goated: Large language models and chatbots can understand natural language and generate human-like responses, but there is no actual humanity behind them. According to a Microsoft researcher working on AI, the idea that LLMs possess human-like attributes is fundamentally flawed. And he has goats to prove his point.
Adrian de Wynter is an AI scientist at Microsoft and a researcher at the University of York. In addition to studying the fundamental challenges of AI and related technologies, he is also a longtime gamer who has been playing Age of Empires II since 1999. In a recent study, de Wynter combined both passions to demonstrate that modern AI systems are far less intelligent and capable of reasoning than many people assume.
The study's title is self-explanatory: "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II." According to de Wynter, many researchers working on LLMs and LLM-powered agentic systems assume that these technologies possess some form of anthropomorphic qualities. Some even argue that chatbots can exhibit moral reasoning or have a conscious understanding of the meaning behind natural-language communication.
