The Unvarnished Truth About AI's Alleged Cognitive Decline

In today’s column, we examine the recent spate of claims that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) supposedly suffer from cognitive decline. This certainly sounds juicy. One related disconcerting factor is that comparing AI to the human condition associated with cognitive decline is an inapt analog and sadly another sign of excessive anthropomorphization of AI. In any case, the crux of the contention is that AI is presumably in some kind of state of decline regarding mustering computational and mathematical forms of exhibited intelligence.