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Limits to AI

Talking about limits to AI seems more like Malthusian predictions of doom and gloom. Nevertheless there are limits to AI as we know it although those limits are pretty far off.

Every new technology displaces labour, whether it is agriculture or manufacturing. On the one hand all that AI does is to search for existing information and generate responses using what it has 'learnt.' My experience with Gemini 2.5 which I presume is about as good as other AI bots, is that it comes up with answers that were totally new. In one case it told that I have a poor understanding of the issue and quite rigthly so. On the other hand it can't make inferences in situations that are not common. Another time, the solutions it suggested did not work. Searching over the internet did not help. Essentially my wordpress site stopped working claiming it could not find the 'wp_options' table. It is only when I tried to regenerate the database that I realised that it was a file permissions problem.