{"id":25414,"date":"2025-07-07T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=25414"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:50:16","slug":"llm-crazyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/07\/llm-crazyness\/","title":{"rendered":"LLM crazyness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We do not need to discuss all dystopic\u00a0 X posts about LLMs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25415\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-07-07-um-12.27.32.jpg\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-07-07-um-12.27.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1936333964693885089<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whenever Nature Mag, however, publishes nonsense\u00a0 like &#8220;A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition&#8221; this may deserve a comment&#8230;<br \/>\nFortunately Science&#8217;s Cathleen O\u2019Grady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/researchers-claim-their-ai-model-simulates-human-mind-others-are-skeptical\">already commente<\/a>d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a big portion of the scientific community that will view this paper very skeptically and be very harsh on it\u201d says Blake Richards, a computational neuroscientist at McGill University &#8230; Jeffrey Bowers, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol, thinks the model is &#8220;absurd\u201d. He and his colleagues tested Centaur &#8230; and found decidedly un-humanlike behavior.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The claim is absurd as training set of 160 psych studies was way to small to cover even a minor aspect of human behavior.<\/p>\n<p>And well, a large fraction of the 160 published <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/ezcuj\/\">study findings are probably wrong<\/a> as may be assumed from another replications study in psych field<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ninety-seven percent of original studies had significant results &#8230; Thirty-six percent of replications had significant results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 14.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not need to discuss all dystopic\u00a0 X posts about LLMs. &nbsp; Whenever Nature Mag, however, publishes nonsense\u00a0 like &#8220;A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition&#8221; this may deserve a comment&#8230; Fortunately Science&#8217;s Cathleen O\u2019Grady already commented \u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a big portion of the scientific community that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/07\/llm-crazyness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LLM crazyness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[5059],"class_list":["post-25414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-fabian-theis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25414"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25501,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25414\/revisions\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}