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Machines sold as thinking: what the models actually do, where the limits sit, and which claims survive contact with the mechanism.

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8:48

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is not intelligence — it’s a prompt-to-output relay, optimised for speed, not truth.
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9:20

ELIZA

ELIZA doesn’t talk — it mirrors, misleads, and exposes how little it takes for humans to believe a machine is listening.
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9:49

Geoffrey Hinton

Hinton didn’t invent deep learning—he invented the intellectual permission to take neural nets seriously as models of mind.
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10:12

Google Search

Google Search didn’t organise the web—it redefined authority as a function of linkage, then language, then generation.
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11:14

ImageNet

Fei-Fei Li

ImageNet is a foundational dataset infrastructure — not a model, not a tool, not a service. It succeeded by making scale measurable, not magical.

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9:44

Siri

Siri didn’t invent voice control—it outsourced understanding to Nuance and offloaded thinking to the cloud.
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11:37

Tesla Autopilot

Tesla Autopilot passes NHTSA’s test — but only because the test measures what Teslas do, not what drivers must still do.
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9:42

Yann LeCun

LeNet wasn’t the future of AI — it was the first working OCR engine that banks actually paid for.
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10:06

Unimate

The first industrial robot didn’t think—it repeated, corrected, and kept workers out of fumes.