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AI now predicts behavior but lacks understanding—what I call anti-intelligence.

A new study on the “Centaur” model exposes this illusion of thought without mind.

AI's anti-intelligence is mimicry mistaken for meaning.

Anti-intelligence is what happens when machines perform thought without having one. It’s the inversion of intelligence itself. Think about it—where human thought moves from experience to understanding to meaning, anti-intelligence moves from data to pattern to prediction. Now, at first glance, that might seem like progress. Large language models (LLMs) have a "computation brilliance" that no human could match. But beneath that fluency is a kind of cognitive emptiness , or perhaps a type of brilliance that reflects thought without a thinker.

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