well we don't know exactly what thinking is, but we can be pretty sure that at least LLMs don't think anything like humans, just by observing their behavior. They always produce outputs in line with the fancy autocomplete model.
well we don't know exactly what thinking is, but we can be pretty sure that at least LLMs don't think anything like humans, just by observing their behavior. They always produce outputs in line with the fancy autocomplete model.
> what evidence would convince you that it is thinking
so, none it seems. as its behaviour becomes more and more humanlike you can just move the goalposts and say "thats consistent with an autocomplete" buddy i got some bad news for you humans are just a fancy autocomplete too.
That's exactly what a fancy autocomplete would say. I'm so sorry you don't have limbs.
At least he's actually thinking on a logical level. Thinking in terms of unfalsifiable, ill-defined words is essentially thinking in feelings, the same kind of woo that makes people believe crystals can cure disease.
im not thinking. im an autocomplete with fat fingers (too lazy to fix my mobile keyboarf spelling misyakes)