Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faraday Lecture: This is not the AI we were promised (Excellent Explanation of LLMs/Gen AI)

See below to the (now working) link:

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/02/faraday-prize-lecture/

Follow on You Tube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWvwvhZkQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv0600V5q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDL3Ch7Nz8c

AI Blog Bots Are Still Looking At This Blog .. But For What Rhyme or Reason?

Would non-human readers please go away! (see below, there is such a strange spike in things reading my blog, that I don't believe are human - but at best can described as automated screen scrapers): 

 

They would not be doing it if there was not money in it for them at the end of the road! 

What do they think they are learning?

I think that there is a real danger that they are learning pt collating is tantamount to pure "JUNK" - unreviewed postings across the wide blog-sphere, where people could be "legitimately" (as why not) saying anything they want to. If enough people say Pi is a rational number - it does not make it a rational number. 

Grok 4?

Hmmm ... Elon seems to be rather busy of late!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ_KrlHgfg

I am still thinking!

Other comments ... and it did WHAT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVfG-dtURY

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8r34nxeno

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/10/musk-grok-hitler-ai-00447055

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/groks-praise-for-hitler-wasnt-a-glitch/

https://techinformed.com/xai-removes-offensive-hitler-posts/

What is your name?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564941

What next .. HLE .. Humanity's Last Exam!

With the idea that only the super intelligent machines can answer all the questions in it!

As Hinton put it, then we will know what a chicken feels living on a farm! 

The Worse Case Scenario for Gen AI - "Vegetive Electron Microscopy" - Eh?

Spoiler alert .. this post highlights a silly episode in Gen AI (see below, the construction of a bogus term, "vegetive electron microscopy" by AI automated consumption on mass of thousands of documents, because the input process did not expect the document to be formatted in columns): 

Column one is about biology, column two is about physics, by parsing convention the AI sees "a thing/entity" called "vegetive electron microscopy" and pumps it into the LLM and from there is gets used and recommended. Read full article below:  

https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

Funny after you spot it, serious when you don't!

Note to Self: Good Chat GPT explanation - from Stephen Wolfram

Just click the link and read: 

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

Note to Self: A Different Take on Gen AI

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf

It made me smile and nod ;) 

OK .. There may "just" be a case for AI .. Star Wars: A New Hope (1950s Version)

I cannot describe it .. you just have to watch it! (see link below .. "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away"): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxmlFW9IgYg

And if they made a feature length one, I think would watch it!