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One sense that I've had of LLM / generative AIs is that they lack "bones", in the sense that there's no underlying structure to which they adhere, only outward appearances which are statistically correlated (using fantastically complex statistical correlation maps).

Cyc, on the other hand, lacks flesh and skin. It's all skeleton and can generate facts but not embellish them into narratives.

The best human writing has both, much as artists (traditional painters, sculptors, and more recently computer animators) has a skeleton (outline, index cards, Zettlekasten, wireframe) to which flesh, skin, and fur are attached. LLM generative AIs are too plastic, Cyc is insufficiently plastic.

I suspect there's some sort of a middle path between the two. Though that path and its destination also increasingly terrify me.