Tag: cognition
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The Tutor Problem
One-on-one tutoring produces enormous learning gains. AI tutoring products mostly replace the wrong part of it, and the evidence for the part they do replace is older and better than the evidence for the part they advertise.
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The Intelligence Illusion: Why What AI Does Is Not Thinking
The word 'intelligence' is doing enormous damage to how we reason about AI. Here's why anthropomorphizing LLMs is not just sloppy — it's dangerous.
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The Ghost in the Machine: What AI Hallucinations Reveal About Intelligence
AI hallucinations are structural, not fixable bugs — understanding why reveals something profound about the nature of knowledge and language itself.
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The Last Human Skill: Why Judgment Cannot Be Automated Away
Why genuine judgment — contextual, values-laden decision-making under uncertainty — structurally resists automation in ways that mere pattern matching does not.
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Why AI Systems Have No Memory (And Why That's the Most Profound Thing About Them)
LLMs have no persistent memory between conversations. This architectural fact has profound implications for AI alignment, personalization, and what intelligence means.
