Sander Poelen
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‘Ai is intelligent in the way dice are intelligent. They use probability to generate the next token. It has a large corpus of data and many parameters that it pulls from to generate an output. We don’t credit an Excel formula with intelligence, and we should not credit generative AI as intelligent.’
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January 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM
‘Ai is intelligent in the way dice are intelligent. They use probability to generate the next token. It has a large corpus of data and many parameters that it pulls from to generate an output. We don’t credit an Excel formula with intelligence, and we should not credit generative AI as intelligent.’