

Basit Tanveer
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@basitt
Head of Business Platforms & Data @Lebara 》Interested in leadership, scaling tech teams, culture & start-ups 》AI, Digital, and Data Transformation 》 Cloudify.











Honestly I think LLMs are the illusion or imitation of thinking, language didn't come before building a model of the world. There are a lot of tests that you can do from the cognitive sciences that shows this, and which LLMs fails at, and the guys at big companies are simply patching the mistakes, and throwing around slogans to sell their products. Narrow AI applications, are often actually where the groundbreaking stuff happens. Silicon Valley's fake it till you make it attitude to everything, might come at a very big price when these LLMs hallucinate. I am optimistic about AI, and I'm a big user of AI and LLMs myself, but I'm under no illusions of its shortcomings. @GaryMarcus' article brilliantly breaks down the hype. You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus…




When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case 2y ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to This DB has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, 20 of them this month! simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai…





