Aug 11, 2026 · 12 min · 7 segments
Significant leap in local AI capability versus a year ago, but still not a total replacement for cloud brawn. Simply bizarre to me that some people keep saying AI is incapable of solving basic math or…
David SeamanHostBraid AI DeveloperGuest
I saw some guy on X today, some British PhD, and he's talking about how it's a bubble and, and just all the stuff I was complaining about the other day of people who don't see the same reality as me.
So he's saying it's a bubble, people are stupid to believe in this, it can't even solve basic riddles, it can't do basic math.
This is a system that's literally solving the great unsolved problems of mathematics, Fields Medal stuff.
And again, it just happened again this morning according to the headlines, and they say it can't solve riddles.
Any riddle that's ever been written on the internet, it already has in its pre-training data.
Just 'cause you have money or you have a PhD after your name doesn't mean you know the first thing about AI.
Unless you know about safety cards and harnesses and training runs, uh, training runs and, and rag loads and all that stuff, you really have no inside track, and yet these people claim that they do, that they know the re-- they know more than the rest of us.
Again, we've put some of these local machines on network theory and coding for the last year.
And, uh, when you're a kid, you grow those crystals as, like, a science experiment.
We have machines where you can't really rebuild that, that last year of them thinking about network theory and connectivity and stuff.
Uh, it's absolutely fascinating, but to say that these are just dumb stochastic parrots that can't solve riddles in mid twenty twenty-six or heading into the fall here almost is just intellectually dishonest.
How can you occupy such a different universe from me? You could prove yourself wrong, British PhD.
I saw some guy on X today, some British PhD, and he's talking about how it's a bubble and, and just all the stuff I was complaining about the other day of people who don't see the same reality as me.
So he's saying it's a bubble, people are stupid to believe in this, it can't even solve basic riddles, it can't do basic math.
This is a system that's literally solving the great unsolved problems of mathematics, Fields Medal stuff.
And again, it just happened again this morning according to the headlines, and they say it can't solve riddles.
Any riddle that's ever been written on the internet, it already has in its pre-training data.
Just 'cause you have money or you have a PhD after your name doesn't mean you know the first thing about AI.
Unless you know about safety cards and harnesses and training runs, uh, training runs and, and rag loads and all that stuff, you really have no inside track, and yet these people claim that they do, that they know the re-- they know more than the rest of us.
Again, we've put some of these local machines on network theory and coding for the last year.
And, uh, when you're a kid, you grow those crystals as, like, a science experiment.
We have machines where you can't really rebuild that, that last year of them thinking about network theory and connectivity and stuff.
Uh, it's absolutely fascinating, but to say that these are just dumb stochastic parrots that can't solve riddles in mid twenty twenty-six or heading into the fall here almost is just intellectually dishonest.
How can you occupy such a different universe from me? You could prove yourself wrong, British PhD.
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