Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats

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Goated: Large language models and chatbots can understand natural language and generate human-like responses, but there is no actual humanity behind them. According to a Microsoft researcher working on AI, the idea that LLMs possess human-like attributes is fundamentally flawed. And he has goats to prove his point.

Adrian de Wynter is an AI scientist at Microsoft and a researcher at the University of York. In addition to studying the fundamental challenges of AI and related technologies, he is also a longtime gamer who has been playing Age of Empires II since 1999. In a recent study, de Wynter combined both passions to demonstrate that modern AI systems are far less intelligent and capable of reasoning than many people assume.

The study's title is self-explanatory: "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So...

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