Terry Tao: "LLMs Are Simpler Than You Think – The Real Mystery Is Why They Work" [video]

What I appreciated here is how calmly Tao separates useful pattern matching from actual mathematical understanding. There’s no AI hype or dismissal but just a reminder that proof, verification, and intuition are different things. It made me rethink where LLMs genuinely help vs where they just feel convincing. Thank you for sharing!

Too impatient to go through the whole video but the title matches my thoughts exactly.

My personal conclusion - most of us are really just not as intelligent as we think.

AI isn’t smart. We’re just dumb.

The LLMs seem smart because they were trained on the intellectual content generated by smart people.

An LLM trained only on 4chan would be very different…

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472213