Vitalik Buterin said AI knowledgeable but not wise, capable only of making superficial judgments

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Vitalik Buterin believes that,AI although it possesses extensive knowledge, it lacks wisdom and can only make superficial judgments about an article's views.

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【Vitalik：AI Extremely knowledgeable but not wise, capable only of making superficial judgments】

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin replied to Ruxandra Teslo on X, stating that he believes AI is extremely knowledgeable and can excel at identifying references in almost any content, but is not wise and can therefore make only the most superficial judgment about the point a text is trying to convey.Vitalik Buterin said this is particularly the case when AI analyzes text it is reading for the first time, as opposed to analyzing text already present in its training data and accompanied by extensive analysis from others. He also stated that AI's extensive knowledge is easier to observe than its limited wisdom; wisdom may be precisely the thing that is difficult to verify easily, unlike intelligence. The reply was directed at a post by Ruxandra Teslo. Ruxandra Teslo said that the related posts made her pessimistic about humanity, and that discussions of her articles by large language models are currently still low-quality content; she was replying at the time to Sichu Lu's claim that AI is better suited than humans to discuss the classics.

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Vitalik Buterin Replied to Ruxandra Teslo on X.
Vitalik Buterin believes AI is extremely knowledgeable and can identify references in almost any content.
He believes AI it is not intelligent and can therefore make only the most superficial judgments about the views that a text attempts to express.
He stated that this is particularly evident when AI analyzing text on a first reading.
Ruxandra Teslo believes that discussions of her articles by large language models are still low-quality content.
Ruxandra Teslo was responding at the time to Sichu Lu's claim that AI it is better suited than humans to discuss the classics.

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This content discusses AI limitations in understanding articles:AI It may be highly skilled at identifying knowledge and citations, but may not necessarily be able to deeply understand the point the author truly intends to convey.

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It reminds readers to distinguish between the abilities to “know a lot” and to “truly understand.”

When reading AI AI-generated article analyses, attention should be paid to whether they merely restate surface-level information, especially when handling previously unseen text.

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Evidence not provided Vitalik Buterin Link to the original X reply.
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