The current Large Language Model AI is not AI of the Good-Old-Fashioned variety, is it? It’s not really intelligent at all. It can’t answer even fairly simple questions, unless it has the answer already written down for it.

It has no capacity to understand meaning, does it? No.

Current AI is a major disappointment. Sure, it can do some nifty tricks; but it’s nowhere near “intelligent”, let alone self-aware.

Large Language Model AI is fun, and can do some drudge work; but it’s just a pretty façade. (Basically, it’s plagiarism AI; it uses patterns detected in huge amounts of data to “answer” questions or make pictures — it’s the 2025 version of a kid in the ‘70s copying the text of a World Book Encyclopedia article nearly word-for-word for a 3rd grade assignment.)

Maybe sometime in the future, AI will get closer to real intelligence; but it ain’t there yet … not by a long shot.

[When i Google “shortcomings of current AI,” it provides the following pretty good answer — ]

Current “AI” systems, including large language models, lack true understanding, creativity, and common sense, operating primarily as sophisticated pattern-matching tools. Beyond these fundamental technical constraints, a number of ethical, data, and operational shortcomings pose significant challenges.