How Data warehouses and Web Search show AI is not Unprecedented

Companion video to    • ChatBots Explained: Not Conscious, No Revo...  
This video provides more detail about how LLMs aren't unprecedented or incomprehensible, but just processing a HUGE amount of data - so much that the answers it gives are impractical to predict. Just like a ton of other modern software problems.

Links from this video:

Essay by Anthropic's CEO claiming "unprecedented" and "do not understand":
https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-...

3Blue1Brown explanations of LLMs:
   • Neural networks  

Claude's "Golden Gate Neurons"
https://www.anthropic.com/research/ma...

MP3 Decoding process:
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get...

Occam's Razor:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Occa...

The Sagan standard:
https://effectiviology.com/sagan-stan...

How the Industry is incentivized to lie:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/vibe-...

Video about Lies the AI industry has told:
   • AI Hype is completely out of control - esp...  


00:00 Intro
01:15 Quote as Problem Statement
02:09 The dispute
03:47 Another disingenuous quote from AI CEO
05:06 Precedents for AI's unpredictability
11:50 Comparing to CEO's claim
13:04 Four reasons not to believe this hype
13:57 Closing