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AI can beat you at chess, write essays like Shakespeare, and even help diagnose diseases. But hereās the scary part ā it still doesnāt understand one of the simplest human words: āNO.ā
A groundbreaking MIT study just exposed a major flaw in todayās most advanced vision-language AIs (the ones that process images + text). They fail badly when asked to interpret negations ā words like āno,ā ānot,ā or ādoesnāt.ā
Why does this matter?
Imagine an AI used in a hospital misreading āno enlarged heartā as āenlarged heart.ā
Thatās not a typo ā thatās a life-altering error.
Why it happens:
These AIs arenāt logical thinkers ā theyāre pattern mimickers. And most image captions donāt mention whatās not in them. No one uploads a beach photo with the caption: āNo sharks here.ā
The MIT Test:
Researchers used tricky image questions with negations.
Result? Most AIs did worse than random guessing when ānotā or ānoā were involved.
Even after training with synthetic negation data, the improvement was minimal.
Whatās the deeper problem?
Itās called affirmation bias ā AI assumes things exist unless told otherwise⦠and sometimes ignores āotherwiseā anyway.
Thatās not just dumb ā itās dangerous.
From healthcare to law, HR to finance, if AI canāt understand phrases like ānot eligibleā or āno signs of cancer,ā the consequences could be catastrophic.
Bottom Line:
Until AI learns the power of āNO,ā we shouldnāt trust it with high-stakes decisions.
This isnāt just a glitch ā itās a red flag we canāt ignore.
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