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AI parroted its way to high school. We’re sending it back to first grade.

David Ferrucci
Nov 7 · 5 min read

AI has a dirty secret: it doesn’t understand language.

Take the recent question-answering system called Aristo. When it came out, early articles proclaimed that the system was “ready for high school science, maybe even college” and called it “as smart as/smarter than an eighth-grader.”

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David Ferrucci

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AI scientist and entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Elemental Cognition.

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