# Jaron Lanier and LLM's for Humanity **URL:** \ **Category:** Using AI\ **Created:** [August 29, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/jaron-lanier-and-llms-for-humanity/207 "2025-08-29T17:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EricZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/ericz/32/692_2.png) [@EricZ](https://forum.zurb.com/u/EricZ)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/jaron-lanier-and-llms-for-humanity/207/1 "2025-08-29T17:34:16Z")
Love me some Jaron Lanier. This is a very cool conversation about how LLM’s are not AI, and how LLM’s can be of service to people so they can be human beings. 12 minutes in, he has a good example of how prompting LLM’s to make strange combinations, like cats holding tuba’s. Good stuff! [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/helio/original/1X/c5b9e30be6278c924a5e738774c187c0d844fd57.jpeg "Jaron Lanier: "There's No Such Thing as Artificial 'Intelligence'"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbLSlzTp-Jc) ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/ben/32/442_2.png) [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/jaron-lanier-and-llms-for-humanity/207/2 "2025-08-29T17:40:07Z")
Love the fact that you’re using the term LLMs and that it’s not really AI (yet)- definitely agree with this POV. I’ll have to give this one a watch! ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/ben/32/442_2.png) [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/jaron-lanier-and-llms-for-humanity/207/3 "2025-11-06T00:49:54Z")
The recent AI stuff has made me want to go back to this video. It’s super important that people have a grasp on how AI works. One of my fun little posts on this > **[I've been building large, complex projects using AI over the last year. I've...](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7385344129704185856/)** > > I've been building large, complex projects using AI over the last year. > > I've also started using AI in 90% of my work in writing the software itself. > > AI is not "AI". > > And no, I'm not arguing about what AI is, but how we're using it. > > Let's break... ---
**Author:** ![nathaliesmith](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/nathaliesmith/32/443_2.png) [@nathaliesmith](https://forum.zurb.com/u/nathaliesmith)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/jaron-lanier-and-llms-for-humanity/207/4 "2025-11-06T23:19:17Z")
“It can help you achieve goals. Not set them for you.” 💡 This! I feel like this is the piece we can’t lose sight of. Its an accelerant, not a replacement.