{"id":1040309,"date":"2026-10-02T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040309"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:21:18","slug":"michael-burry-says-ai-has-a-reasoning-problem-the-clue-dates-back-to-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/michael-burry-says-ai-has-a-reasoning-problem-the-clue-dates-back-to-1880\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Burry says AI has a reasoning problem: The clue dates back to 1880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Burry has taken his warning on artificial intelligence a step further, using a 145-year-old case study to question whether the technology industry\u2019s focus on large language models is taking AI in the wrong direction. In his latest post, titled \u201cHistory Rhymes: Large Language Models Off to a Bad Start?\u201d, Burry looked back at an 1880 New York Times story about Melville Ballard, a deaf and mute teacher who described having complex thoughts before he had learned formal language. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 145-year-old case study, presented at the Smithsonian Institute no less, provides a potentially devastating critique of today\u2019s Large Language Models and the spending behind them,\u201d Burry wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Burry has taken his warning on artificial intelligence a step further, using a 145-year-old case study to question whether the technology industry\u2019s focus on large language models is taking AI in the wrong direction. In his latest post, titled \u201cHistory Rhymes: Large Language Models Off to a Bad Start?\u201d, Burry looked back at an 1880 New York Times story about Melville Ballard, a deaf and mute teacher who described having complex thoughts before he had learned formal language. \u201cThis 145-year-old case study, presented at the Smithsonian Institute no less, provides a potentially devastating critique of today\u2019s Large Language Models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040351,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040309\/revisions\/1040351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}