confusing proximity for meaning

Jan 07, 2026

AI confusing proximity for meaning.

Thanks to Lewis Z. Liu I learned about semantic leaking. The issue?

"(..) generative AI has always been that large language models associate patterns together without really understanding those patterns; it’s statistics without comprehension." - Gary Marcus

🏅 Give the article a read: Substack

🎯 For anyone interested to dive deeper, here is the paper