AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

🤖 "AI is Code: The Limits of Prompting Intelligence"

AI systems are fundamentally built on code, and their capabilities are determined by the quality and complexity of that code. Simply prompting them with new inputs or queries cannot magically imbue them with greater intelligence or understanding.

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title: AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
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AI systems are fundamentally built on code, and their capabilities are determined by the quality and complexity of that code. Simply prompting them with new inputs or queries cannot magically imbue them with greater intelligence or understanding.
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